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Han Soo Lee, Ricard Diago Sambuaga and Constanza Flores
On 22 December 2018, the volcanic eruption of Anak Krakatoa in the Sunda Strait, Indonesia, triggered a tsunami causing 437 deaths. The highest death toll and the second highest number of damaged houses were recorded in Panimbang. This study proposes opt...
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Angela Santos, Juan Fernandes and Nelson Mileu
Portugal has had several large tsunamis in the past, yet Oeiras municipality has not implemented mitigation strategies and awareness to the general public, to the authors? knowledge. In addition, Oeiras has 10 beaches that are very popular among resident...
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Ryan Paulik, Heather Craig and Benjamin Popovich
Evacuation zones are a critical tool for mitigating loss of life in tsunami events. In New Zealand, tsunami evacuation zones are implemented by emergency management agencies at regional or sub-regional scales, providing national coverage for populated co...
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Eunju Lee, Taehwa Jung and Sungwon Shin
A tsunami is a significant coastal hazard that causes destructive damage to coastal cities in the world. Besides, tsunamis, generated on the west coast of Japan, damaged coastal cities on the east coast of Korea in 1983 and 1993. In recent years, there h...
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Bahaa Mohamadi, Shuisen Chen and Jia Liu
Evacuation plans are critical in case of natural disaster to save people?s lives. The priority of population evacuation on coastal areas could be useful to reduce the death toll in case of tsunami hazard. In this study, the population density remote sens...
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Motoaki Sugiura, Shosuke Sato, Rui Nouchi, Akio Honda, Ryo Ishibashi, Tsuneyuki Abe, Toshiaki Muramoto and Fumihiko Imamura
Although various factors related to the environment (perception of earthquake and warning) and knowledge (oral history and scientific knowledge) affect individual differences in evacuation behavior before a tsunami, the roles of psychological processes a...
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Mari Yasuda, Toshiaki Muramoto and Rui Nouchi
In this research, a visiting class on disaster preparedness education for higher-grade elementary school students (10?11 years old) was conducted in Wakayama prefecture, which is exposed to Nankai Trough earthquakes, and in different parts of the three p...
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Byunghyun Choi, Akemi Nishida, Tatsuya Itoi and Tsuyoshi Takada
After the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, we observed that aftershocks tended to occur in a wide region after such a large earthquake. These aftershocks resulted in secondary damage or delayed rescue and recovery activities. In addition, it has been reported ...
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Fumiyasu Makinoshima, Yoshi Abe, Fumihiko Imamura, Gaku Machida and Yukimi Takeshita
Excessive car evacuation can cause severe traffic jams that can lead to large numbers of casualties during tsunami disasters. Investigating the possible factors that lead to unnecessary car evacuation can ensure smoother tsunami evacuations and mitigate ...
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Angela Santos, Nuno Fonseca, Margarida Queirós, José Luís Zêzere and José Luís Bucho
The Setubal municipality, Portugal, has diversified land use along its coastline (mostly located in a low-lying area): on the west there are beaches; the centre is dominated by a densely populated downtown; and the east has an important industrial area. ...
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