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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.
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An international team of scientists from 20 countries identified 47 problems that hinder the successful prevention and elimination of the consequences of the tsunami. Based on the carried out analysis, the world s leading experts on natural hazards have outlined directions for further scientific research. The research group s review is published in a special issue of the
Frontiers in Earth Science .
The main problems identified in the review are related to the large gaps and uncertainties in knowledge about tsunami, the lack of well-documented observations, and imperfect methods of processing available information. One of the reasons is the lack of coordination of the efforts of those countries for which the study and prediction of tsunam
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