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First World Tsunami Awareness Day to be celebrated on Nov 5

The First World Tsunami Awareness Day will be celebrated on 5 November 2016 at the Asian Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) 2016.
●    The event will be organised with Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Champions at the Conference.
●    The significance of the day to tsunami awareness can be traced back to the year 1854. 
●    A villager in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, was concerned about an impending tsunami after a high-intensity earthquake on 5 November 1854. 
●    He set up a fire to rice sheaves on the top of a hill. 
●    Fellow villagers, who went atop to put off the fire, were saved even as a tsunami destroyed their village down below. 
●    This was the first documented instance of a tsunami early warning.
●    To commemorate that day of “Inamura no Hi” (the burning of rice sheaves), a resolution was jointly proposed by 142 countries including Japan as a follow up of the third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. 
●    The United Nations designated the 5th November as World Tsunami Awareness Day.

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