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SUMMARY:World Tsunami Awareness Day
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ORGANIZER;CN="Julio Moraga":julio@moraga.se
DESCRIPTION:\n	(A/RES/70/203)\n\n\n\n	Tsunamis can be deadly\, but they 
	needn’t be. Early warning and early action are effective tools to protec
	t people\, saving lives\, and preventing the hazard from becoming a disast
	er. To be effective\, tsunami early-warning systems must cover every at-ri
	sk person\, they must be multi-hazard\, and communities must be prepared s
	o they can act quickly.\n\n\n\n	In December 2015\, the UN General Assembly
	 designated 5 November as World Tsunami Awareness Day\, calling on countri
	es\, international bodies and civil society to raise tsunami awareness and
	 share innovative approaches to risk reduction.\n\n\n\n	World Tsunami Awar
	eness Day was the brainchild of Japan\, which due to its repeated\, bitter
	 experience has over the years built up major expertise in areas such as t
	sunami early warning\, public action and building back better after a disa
	ster to reduce future impacts. UN Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) facilita
	tes the observance of World Tsunami Awareness Day in collaboration with th
	e rest of the United Nations system.\n\n\n\n	Background\n\n	Tsunamis are r
	are events but can be extremely deadly. In the past 100 years\, 58 of them
	 have claimed more than 260\,000 lives\, or an average of 4\,600 per disas
	ter\, surpassing any other natural hazard. The highest number of deaths in
	 that period was in the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004. It caused a
	n estimated 227\,000 fatalities in 14 countries\, with Indonesia\, Sri Lan
	ka\, India and Thailand hardest-hit.\n\n\n\n	Just three weeks after that t
	he international community came together in Kobe\, in Japan’s Hyogo regi
	on. Governments adopted the 10-year Hyogo Framework for Action\, the first
	 comprehensive global agreement on disaster risk reduction.\n\n\n\n	They a
	lso created the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System\, which
	 boasts scores of seismographic and sea-level monitoring stations and diss
	eminates alerts to national tsunami information centres.\n\n\n\n	Rapid urb
	anization and growing tourism in tsunami-prone regions are putting ever-mo
	re people in harm’s way. That makes the reduction of risk a key factor i
	f the world is to achieve substantial reductions in disaster mortality –
	 a primary goal of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2
	030\, the 15-year international agreement adopted in March 2015 to succeed
	 the Hyogo Framework.\n\n\n\n	What are tsunamis?\n\n	The word \"tsunami\" 
	comprises the Japanese words \"tsu\" (meaning harbour) and \"nami\" (meani
	ng wave). A tsunami is a series of enormous waves created by an underwater
	 disturbance usually associated with earthquakes occurring below or near t
	he ocean.\n\n\n\n	Volcanic eruptions\, submarine landslides\, and coastal 
	rock falls can also generate a tsunami\, as can a large asteroid impacting
	 the ocean. They originate from a vertical movement of the sea floor with 
	the consequent displacement of water mass.\n\n\n\n	Tsunami waves often loo
	k like walls of water and can attack the shoreline and be dangerous for ho
	urs\, with waves coming every 5 to 60 minutes.\n\n\n\n	The first wave may 
	not be the largest\, and often it is the 2nd\, 3rd\, 4th or even later wav
	es that are the biggest. After one wave inundates\, or floods inland\, it 
	recedes seaward often as far as a person can see\, so the seafloor is expo
	sed. The next wave then rushes ashore within minutes and carries with it m
	any floating debris that were destroyed by previous waves.\n\n
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