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April is Tsunami Awareness Month in Hawaiʻi. Click for 2023 TAM
Annually, Country, State, and Federal partners, along with the private sector such as the Pacific Tsunami Museum, team up for month of awareness events on tsunamis. In 2018 , the Kamehameha Schools Bishop Estate joins us contributing Hawaiian language materials.
Tsunami Facts is a statewide brochure, customized by County, and in multiple languages. The ʻFactsʻ are the most common outreach questions asked to the City & County of Honolulu, Department of Emergency Management. Languages cover the non-English speaking population, aged 5 and older who speak a language other than English at home in Hawaiʻi (U.S. Census Bureau, Hawaiʻi Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, DBEDT, 2016).