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World Tsunami Awareness Day 2024 - November 05
November 6 , 2024
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- 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.
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