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Pedestrian evacuation time maps, flow depth time series, and population estimates for the island of Guam tsunami evacuation zone

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2022

Citation

Peters, J., Wood, N.J., and Cheung, K.F., Yamazaki, Y., 2023, Pedestrian evacuation time maps, flow depth time series, and population estimates for the island of Guam tsunami evacuation zone: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P93794E6.

Summary

These datasets support the conclusions in the journal article entitled "Modeling non-structural strategies to reduce pedestrian evacuation times for mitigating local tsunami threats in Guam" as described in the abstract below: Reducing the potential for loss of life from local tsunamis is challenging for emergency managers given the need for self-protective behavior within brief windows of time for at-risk individuals to evacuate. There has been considerable attention paid to discussing the construction of tsunami vertical-evacuation structures for areas where there is insufficient time to evacuate. This strategy may not be feasible for at-risk populations in island communities for multiple reasons. We examine the influence of three [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Jeff Peters
Process Contact :
Jeff Peters, Nathan J Wood
Originator :
Jeff Peters, Nathan J Wood, Kwok Fai Cheung, Yoshiki Yamazaki
Metadata Contact :
Jeff Peters
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Western Geographic Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Core Science Systems

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GuamTsunamiEvacuation_DataRelease.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		56.99 KB application/fgdc+xml
GuamTsunamiEvacuation_TimeMap_shapefiles.zip
“Evacuation time map shapefiles” 		2.26 MB application/zip
GuamTsunamiEvacuation_Tables.zip
“Flow depth time series and population evacuation travel time tables” 		40.12 KB application/zip

Purpose

The communities of Guam are threatened by distant tsunamis from earthquake sources from around the Pacific Ocean basin. This data release includes three shapefiles of pedestrian evacuation travel time maps for the Guam tsunami zone, tables of flow depth estimates by elapsed time in specific locations, and two tables of population estimates by travel time, travel speed, and brush scenario. All of these can be used by emergency managers and community planners to identify where to focus evacuation training and hazard education.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P93794E6

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