First World Tsunami Awareness Day will be celebrated on 5th November 2016
Q. First World Tsunami Awareness Day will be celebrated on- Published on 13 Oct 16a. 5th November 2016
b. 25th October 2016
c. 15th December 2016
d. 21st December 2016
ANSWER: 5th November 2016
- The First World Tsunami Awareness Day will be celebrated on November 5, 2016.
- The significance of this day, the 5th November, 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 November 5, 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.
