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World Tsunami Awareness Day

On 5 November of each year, on input from the United Nations which established it in 2015, the day of awareness raising and awareness of the risk posed by tsunamis is celebrated. These are quite rare natural events but with disastrous impacts for men and things.
This year Tsunami Awareness Day is focused on Goal G of the Sendai Framework which provides for greater availability of early warning systems in the event of possible disasters and easier access to such information systems essential to save lives.

  • World Tsunami Awareness Day
  • 2022-11-05T00:00:00+00:00
  • 2022-11-05T23:59:59+00:00
  • On 5 November of each year, on input from the United Nations which established it in 2015, the day of awareness raising and awareness of the risk posed by tsunamis is celebrated. These are quite rare natural events but with disastrous impacts for men and things. This year Tsunami Awareness Day is focused on Goal G of the Sendai Framework which provides for greater availability of early warning systems in the event of possible disasters and easier access to such information systems essential to save lives.
  • When Nov 05, 2022 (GMT+0 / UTC0)
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ISPRA, which together with the Department of Civil Protection and the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology is responsible for implementing the SiAM, the Italian earthquake-generated tsunami warning system, contributes in real time and constantly to this service with the its tidal networks, the data of which are available on the tsunami.isprambiente portal.

In this field ISPRA is carrying out technical-scientific research activities that take into account the continuous development of technological innovations for telecommunications and of the new so-called smart cable laying systems.