The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, one of the deadliest disasters in recent history, claimed more than 220,000 lives across 14 countries. Tsunamis are unpredictable and can arrive within minutes or hours, impacting multiple ocean basins. In response, UNESCO and its Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission took the lead in developing a coordinated global early warning system. has developed a global early warning system relying on a dense network of sensors, tide gauges, and regional warning centers

WHAT IF… 🌊 What if a tsunami wasn’t just a wall of water hitting a coastline—but a single, colossal, planet-scale surge moving at impossible speed? Imagine the ocean lifting as one, not breaking into waves, but rising into a continent-high mass of water that sweeps forward in one unstoppable motion. No warning sirens. No gradual retreat of the sea. Just a sudden darkening of the horizon as the water itself becomes the sky. From orbit, the planet would change in seconds. Coastlines vanish first,