Question: On which of the following date World Tsunami Awareness day is observed?
(a) 1 November
(b) 5 November
(c) 10 November
(d) 15 November
Answer: (b)
Related Facts:
- Every year, November 5 marks the World Tsunami Awareness Day to spread awareness about the deadly natural disaster which claimed lives over 260,000 people.
- In 2021, World Tsunami Awareness Day will promote the ‘Sendai Seven Campaign’.
- This campaign aims to Substantially enhance international cooperation to developing countries through adequate and sustainable support to complement their national actions for implementation of the present Framework by 2030.
- World Tsunami Awareness Day is a brainchild of Japan, which has developed major expertise over the years on tsunami early warning and public action due to the country’s “repeated, bitter experience” with the disaster.
- The United Nations (UN) in December 2015 designated November 5 every year as World Tsunami Awareness Day to call on “countries, international bodies and civil society to raise awareness about the natural disaster and share innovative approaches to risk reduction.”
BY: AMIT GUPTA