The World Tsunami Awareness Day was observed across the world on 5th November to spread awareness among people across the world about Tsunami.
The theme of the World Tsunami Awareness Day 2017 is ‘Reduce the number of affected People’.
November 5 was designated as World Tsunami Awareness Day by UNGA to coincide with the annual anniversary of the 1854 Inamura-no-hi (Fire of Inamura) event.