World Tsunami Awareness Day

World Tsunami Awareness Day
5 November

Tsunami is type of natural disaster, in which many people died in recent year. Do you know why tsunami came?

Tsunami comes in sea or in oceans. Tsunami is nothing but simply a earthquake under the sea and oceans. When the land under the water get vibrates then the energy of vibration comes to the surface of water bodies cause heavy loss of mankind and ecology because the wave of vibration which is arise due earthquake have high amount of energy.

In December 2015, the UN General Assembly designated  5 November as World Tsunami Awareness Day.

The date for the annual celebration was chosen in honour of the Japanese story of “Inamura-no-hi”, meaning the “burning of the rice sheaves”. During an 1854 earthquake a farmer saw the tide receding, a sign of a looming tsunami. He set fire to his entire harvest to warn villagers, who fled to high ground. Afterwards, he built an embankment and planted trees as a buffer against future waves.

In 2019, World Tsunami Awareness day promotes Target (d) of the "Sendai Seven Campaign," which focuses on reducing disaster damage to critical infrastructure and disruption of basic services.