World Tsunami Awareness Day - 5 November 2021

Click to view Pacific Islands Tsunami Ready shout-out!
                      Western Pacific Tsunami Ready shout-out!
                      Eastern Pacific Tsunami Ready shout-out!

World Tsunami Awareness Day for 2021 promotes target (f) of the seven global targets of the Sendai Framework for measuring progress on reducing disaster risk and losses, which is to "Substantially enhance international cooperation to developing countries through adeuqare and sustainable support to complement their national actions for implementation of the present Framework by 2030."

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Misutori, offered an invitational message to celebrate World Tsunami Awareness Day 2021. She proclaimed the UN Decade for Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, 2021-2030, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reduce tsunami risk globally.

WTAD message, Mami Mitzutori, UNDRR Special Rep of the Secr-Gen for Disaster Risk Reduction

In 2021, UNESCO IOC Member States established a Tsunami Programme to contribute the UN Decade Safe Ocean outcome. Transformative improvements in tsunami detection, forecasting, and warning, along with global-scale coastal community resilience-building, are envisioned. An aim will be to make 100% of communities at risk of tsunamis prepared and resilient to tsunamis by 2030 through the UNESCO-IOC Tsunami Ready Programme and other initiatives. In every ocean, many countries have already started.

WEBINARS

Global and regional events (Agenda) organized by the UNDRR and UNESCO IOC, in collaboration with other UN agencies and external partners, are planned. In addition, many countries will celebrate World Tsunami Awareness Day.

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Short videos created by the UNDRR in collaboration with UNESCO IOC showcase the importance of international cooperation and its contributions to and from countries and partners around the world working together to save lives from tsunamis.

For more information on the UNESCO IOC Tsunami Ready programme, click here.

For playlist, click here

WTAD, Public Service Announcement
WTAD, Public Service Announcement, with Tsunami Wave Animation
WTAD, UN Decade for Ocean Science, Tsunami Ready - IOC Exec Secr, ITIC Dir
ECHO support for North Africa
Tsunami Ready, Odisha State, India
Tsunami Ready Board Game, Indian Ocean Tsunami Information Center
Tsunami Ready, Lebak, West Java, Indonesia
ISO Community Based Early Earning System, Yogyakarta Airport, Indonesia
DART Tsunami Detection System, New Zealand
Tsunami Early Warning System, Solomon Islands
Tsunami Ready, St Kitts and Nevis
Tsunami Ready, Caribbean Partners and Donors