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SRSG Kamal Kishore's official statement on 2026 World Tsunami Awareness Day, which follows the theme "Be Tsunami Ready: Resilience starts with you."

To commemorate World Tsunami Awareness Day – marked each year on 5 November – UNDRR held an innovation showcase and policy dialogue, generously hosted by the Permanent Mission of Japan in Geneva.

A tsunami warning is a race against time. A wave triggered close to shore can arrive within minutes, and when a volcano or landslide is the source, systems designed around earthquakes may register the threat late or not at all.

On this World Tsunami Awareness Day, let’s take charge of resilience. By working together we can be tsunami ready – and save lives whenever the waves strike.

A tsunami can reach the coast within minutes of an earthquake or other sudden disturbance, sometimes before any official alert. What people already know, and what they do in those first minutes, often decides who survives.

In a new study published in Seismological Research Letters, researchers Alejandra Gubler and Matías Carvajal demonstrate that the safety of evacuation routes strongly depends on how soon after an earthquake people begin to evacuate.