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Despite mitigation plans and risk analysis methods developed over the years to prepare and prevent losses from tsunamis, international team of scientists identified large gaps and uncertainties that still exist, hindering success of eliminating consequences that coastal cities and communities suffer from in an event of a tsunami.
While tsunamis can be rare, they certainly impose potentially devastating natural hazards in affected areas, especially in coastal cities with hundreds of residents and infrastructures. The research group identified 47 problems from 20 different countries, one of them being the lack of coordination among said countries in predicting, forecasting, and corresponding to tsunami and its risks.