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A curling wave over a low shore.
Also known as: Tsunami pictogram Japan
Marks an evacuation site as suitable for a tsunami, one of the Japanese disaster-type pictograms.
Marks a site designated as suitable for evacuation from a tsunami.
Contexts: Public information
Turns entirely on height above sea level, which is why the same site may carry this mark and not the flood one, or the reverse: the two hazards need opposite things from a refuge in a coastal town crossed by a river.
Contexts: Public information
A square panel carrying a large wave curling forward over a low flat strip, its crest breaking towards the right.
One of the eight marks in the set.