Tsunami, Marea Egee, 30 Octombrie, 2020

Tsunamis a ‘Supreme’ Test of Governance, Institutions in Place to Manage Disaster Risk, Pandemic Response, Secretary-General Says on World Awareness Day
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message on World Tsunami Awareness Day, observed today:

We live in a multi-hazard world where risk is systemic and embedded in the very fabric of human development.

Currently we are struggling with what some describe as a tsunami of death and disease due to COVID-19. This metaphor comes easily because living memory remains strong of the worst sudden onset disaster this century, the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 that took more than 227,000 lives.

Pandemic preparedness can borrow much from the progress we have made in reducing large-scale loss of life from tsunamis. There are now early warning systems wherever coasts are vulnerable.

The United Nations system is working with partners around the globe to educate the public, organize drills, create evacuation routes and to do everything possible to avoid heavy loss of life when the next tsunami comes. And come it surely will, just like the next pandemic, storm, flood, drought or heatwave.

When tsunamis strike, they are a supreme test of the governance and institutions that have been put in place to manage disaster risk.

Strengthening disaster risk governance is the theme of this year’s World Tsunami Awareness Day.

It should help build our resilience to all hazards, natural and man-made.

https://www.un.org/press/en/2020/sgsm20397.doc.htm
 
"Boat attempting to leave Crescent City Harbour during the March 11th, 2011 tsunami",

si skipper-ul,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEr_ZiVeAKw

Foarte interesantă mărturia lui.
Mă gândeam pentru mine, ce ar fi de făcut în astfel de cazuri, și prima pornire a fost să ies în larg.
Bărcile nu de apă se tem, ci de uscat. O ieșire în larg ar trebui să fie mult mai safe decât așteptarea la coastă.
Dacă mai e timp, doar :)
 
Oceanul planetar acoperă aproximativ 71% din suprafața Pământului.

Dacă toată suprafața Pământului ar avea aceeași altitudine, adâncimea oceanului rezultat, ar fi de 2,7 până la 2,8 km.

Doamne fereste, Marcu 13 :33 ''Luaţi aminte, privegheaţi şi vă rugaţi, că nu ştiţi când va fi acea vreme''.

de un super-cutremur,

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Map_of_earthquakes_1900-.svg

urmat de un super-tsunami,

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/1755_Lisbon_earthquake.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe..._del_terremoto_di_Messina_(dicembre_1908).jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/...r_the_Tsunami_that_struck_South_East_Asia.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_.../File:SH-60B_helicopter_flies_over_Sendai.jpg
 

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