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2018 World Tsunami Awareness Day (WTAD)
The World Tsunami Awareness Day (WTAD) is observed every year on November 5 to raise awareness about precautionary measures against tsunami and share innovative approaches to risk reduction. Along with risk of large loss of life, the day also highlight the economic losses tsunamis can inflict along vulnerable, densely populated coastlines, shown in red on ..
Topics: Flood • Natural hazards • Nature • Oceanography • Physical oceanography • Physical sciences • Risk Management • Tsunami • Water waves
Odisha and Tamil Nadu governments Disaster Management Authorities are working with Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System
In June 2018, Odisha government entered into a collaboration with the Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (RIMES), an intergovernmental body under United Nations. RIMES has 48 member nations among Asia Pacific and Africa Region and is aimed at automating risk management, advisory generation and dissemination. This body had evolved in the aftermath of 2004 ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020
Topics: Contents • Flood • Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami • Natural hazards • Nature • Oceanography • Physical oceanography • Risk Management • Tamil Nadu • Tsunami
Odisha to colloborate with Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (RIMES) for disaster management
The Odisha government will collaborate with the Thailand-based Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (RIMES) for strengthening its early warning services and enhancing preparedness for management of hazards in the State. The Odisha State Disaster Mitigation Authority (OSDMA) and RIMES would forge a partnership in the field of drought monitoring and early warning for different ..
Topics: Early warning system • Emergency management • Humanitarian aid • Natural hazards • Odisha State Disaster Management Authority • risk • Risk Management • State Disaster Management Authority • Tsunami
The 2017 World Tsunami Awareness Day (WTAD) observed on 5 November
The World Tsunami Awareness Day (WTAD) is observed every year on November 5 to spread awareness among people across the world in matters related to the dangers of tsunami and shall stress on the importance of early warning systems in order to mitigate damage from the often devastating natural hazard. It also aims at reviving ..
Topics: Flood • Natural hazards • Nature • Physical oceanography • Physical sciences • Seismology • Tsunami • Water waves
Cherry Plants to be planted in Japan to warn future generations about Tsunami
Cherry trees planted in tsunami-ravaged city of Rikuzentakata, Japan Residents of the tsunami-ravaged coastal city of Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture have launched a project to plant cherry trees marking the points where waves reached on March 11, 2011 to warn future generations about a repeat of the catastrophe. The residents eventually aim to plant about ..
Month: Current Affairs - March, 2012
Topics: Iwate Prefecture • Kesen meteorite • Natural hazards • Nature • Oceanography • Rikuzentakata, Iwate • Tsunami • Water waves