The World Tsunami Awareness Day 2019 (WTAD) promoted by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), focuses on one of the seven global objectives of the Sendai Protocol, which targets the reduction of natural disaster damage to vulnerable civil structures and exposed infrastructures ("Substantially reduce disaster damage to critical infrastructure and disruption of basic services, among them health and educational facilities, including through developing their resilience by 2030").
WTAD2019 was established to remind the tsunami risk and to encourage governments to invest economic resources in the building and adaptation of civil and strategic buildings to make them resilient to catastrophic natural events, in earthquake and tsunami early warning systems and in education, which is essential to increase awareness and protect people and property from tsunami risk in the future. More than 700 million people today live in developed areas with long, flat coastlines exposed to extreme risks including tsunami risk.
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