It's November 5th. In 2015, the United Nations designated this day as 🌊 World Tsunami (津波) Awareness Day. The idea for this annual event was the brainchild of Japan, which due to its repeated, bitter experiences with natural disasters over the years, has built up a major body of tsunami expertise.

Tsunamis are rare events, but they can be extremely deadly. Over the past hundred years, 58 tsunamis have killed more than 260,000 people, or an average of 4,600 per episode – more than any other type of natural disaster. The most tragic event during that period was the Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 2004, which killed 227,000 people in 14 countries. Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand were the hardest hit.

The goal of this year's World Tsunami Awareness Day is to secure commitments from the world's governments and major corporations to “substantially enhance international cooperation to developing countries through adequate and sustainable support to complement their national actions by 2030.”