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Background : The coastal community of Bengkulu is still lacking in knowledge about tsunami disaster risk management. Their knowledge is only limited to how to avoid disasters that have come. A real action is needed in an effort to increase community resilience in disaster areas in coastal areas. Community service activities carried out by gathering residents for counseling could not be carried out because it was still in the Covid 19 pandemic, so the STIKES Tri Mandiri Sakti Bengkulu community service group carried out disaster risk reduction efforts by distributing leaflets to the community directly to people's homes. Purpose : The purpose of this community service is to ensure that the community knows how to save themselves, reduce the impact of disasters, and increase knowledge about the tsunami disaster. Methods : The implementation of this community service uses community education methods which are carried out in the form of socialization and distribution of leaflets to 50 residents around the coast. Result : The socialization and distribution of lefalate activities were successful and right on target in the implementation because of the support, cooperation from the Malabero village and the academic community of STIKES Tri Mandiri Sakti Bengkulu. Coclusion : Increasing public knowledge and reducing disaster risk can be effectively carried out by providing direct house-to-house education to coastal communities. Because the community can interact and get information about the tsunami directly by the community service team. coastal communities to be able to participate in disaster management training so that the ability to save themselves when a disaster occurs can be carried out optimally.

Background: The main cause that resulted in the emergence of many victims due to the earthquake disaster was the lack of knowledge of community preparedness about disasters and the lack of community preparedness in anticipating the disaster. Purpose: This Community Service aims to increase knowledge about the preparedness of pregnant women in dealing with the earthquake and tsunami disaster in the work area of the Pasar Ikan Health Center in Bengkulu City. Methods: This activity was carried out by distributing leaflets, conducting counseling and evaluating activities, the implementation of this activity was carried out in the work area of the Bengkulu City Fish Market Health Center from November 25 to November 28, 2021 with a total of 24 pregnant women participating. Results: In the implementation of the activities that we carried out, there was an increase in the knowledge of pregnant women after the Preparedness education was carried out in the event of an earthquake and Tsunami. Where the average before the counseling was done was 45 percent, it increased to 80 percent after the counseling was done. In addition, pregnant women also seemed enthusiastic during the counseling session, this can be seen from the response of pregnant women in the question and answer session Conclusion: From the results of this service activity, there was an increase in knowledge of pregnant women about preparedness during disasters, especially earthquakes and tsunamis.