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World Tsunami Awareness Day 2024 - November 05

November 6 , 2024 17 days 129 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.

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