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Tsunami

Waves generated by submarine earth movements, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions or landslides. source: CRED

by UNISDR

GPDRR 2013: A summit to better prevent disasters

22 May 2013, Geneva Intl Cooperation, Switzerland - gov

'Our goal is mainly to sound the alarm, because if no one does anything, we will continue to spend a lot of money for humanitarian aid after the fact, instead of prevention before the fact,' said Neil McFarlane in an interview on the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction...


Human Exposure - Absolute exposure to tsunami
  Countries  
People exposed per year
1 Indonesia 5,402,239
2 Japan 4,497,645
3 Bangladesh 1,598,546
4 India 1,114,388
5 Philippines 894,848
Source of data: 2009 Global Assessment Report
Number of tsunami occured (reported)

Source of data: OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database

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