“Memories of tsunami events fade quickly but damaging tsunamis of over two metres have been seen everywhere along the Pacific Rim separately from the two most destructive tsunamis of recent times, the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004 and the Great East Japan Tsunami in 2011.” 

Mr. Robert Glasser, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, said: “Professor Imamura and his colleagues have produced a timely reminder of the importance of understanding tsunami risk based on historical data and where a fault segment is capable of producing an earthquake. We overlook tsunami risk at our peril.” 

*“A Global Assessment of Historical and Future Tsunami Hazards Based on Seismic Records Over the Last 400 Years and Estimated Seismic Gaps” was produced by Fumihiko Imamura, Anawat Suppasri, Panon Latcharote, Takuro Otake, Natt Leelawat, and David N. Nguyen for this year’s World Tsunami Awareness Day on November 5 and is available at https://goo.gl/XVsC6d

Date:

1 Nov 2017

Sources:

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)