How can small islands survive a tsunami?

2017-11-23 06:30 Source:UNISDR Pacific

 

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

Editor:母晨静