Important Days

World Tsunami Awareness Day 2024 - November 05

November 6 , 2024 16 hrs 0 min 15 0

In December 2015, the UN General Assembly designated this day.
It aims to raise tsunami awareness and share innovative approaches to the risk reduction.
In the past 100 years, 58 Tsunamis have claimed more than 260,000 lives.
November 5 was chosen to commemorate the story of “Inamura-no-hi” (The Burning of the Rice Sheaves).
Ion this day in 1854, A Japanese villager set fire to his rice stacks in hill top as a warning to his neighbours, saving their lives from an approaching tsunami.