Literacy of Tsunami in 1852 The Coast Ambon City Center, Maluku Province

Abstract Ambon is a region with a high Disaster Risk Index, including earthquake disasters. Historical literacy of a very powerful event in Ambon, namely the 1852 earthquake and tsunami, which hit several villages in the coastal area of Ambon city center The aim is to analyze the influence of disaster information literacy on community preparedness in facing disasters, and determine a model to bring back the history of the 1852 earthquake and tsunami to be known and commemorated as capital for community preparedness. The method used is a qualitative approach with descriptive methods and field surveys to obtain facts from existing symptoms and seek factual information about the earthquake and tsunami that occurred in 1852. Interviews using a purposive sampling method to find out The influence of disaster information literacy on community preparedness, observation and documentation. Data analysis uses data reduction, data presentation, drawing conclusions. Data validity is carried out by technical triangulation and source triangulation. The influence of disaster information literacy on community preparedness in facing disasters in the center of Ambon city is still relatively low, and an interesting model for rediscovering the history of the 1852 earthquake and tsunami is utilizing information media, increasing public knowledge, creating historical monuments, preserving found tsunami scars, making the coastal communities in the center of Ambon City a Tsunami Ready Community, always making November 26th a tsunami commemoration day in the center of Ambon City, historical records of tsunami must be owned by all villages/states/sub-districts on the coast of Ambon city center and even Ambon Island, and found evidence in the form of notes, photographs and existing conditions resulting from the impact of the 1852 tsunami.