The students of Ratu Kadavulevu School, in Fiji, have already conducted tsunami exposure assessments on nearby communities such as Lodoni, which sits 400 metres from the coast and has a population of 300.

The students of Nauru Secondary School will reflect on the experience in the 1980s when the country – 24 square kilometres with a total population of 18,000 – suffered devastating King Tides.

Meanwhile, the students from Vanuatu Central School will recall the 12-metre high tsunami of 1878 and the seven tsunamis since as they seek to develop simple but hard-hitting posters to emphasize the importance of preparedness.

The Pacific youth ambassadors were bid farewell by the Japanese Ambassador to Fiji, H.E. Masahiro Omura at a special World Tsunami Awareness event in his official residence.

Date:

6 Nov 2017

Sources:

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Sub-Regional Office for the Pacific (UNISDR Pacific)

Hazards:

Tsunami

Countries:

Japan, Samoa, Tuvalu, Vanuatu

Regions:

Asia, Oceania