Tsunami Debris and Risk
Oral
Tomoyuki Takabatake, PhD
Assistant Professor
Waseda University
Tomoya Shibayama, PhD
Professor
Waseda University
Miguel Esteban
The University of Tokyo
In order to understand tsunami hazards in a certain area, it is important to assess the potential casualties that can result from a given event. Although many studies related to tsunami casualty estimations exist, most of them have not taken detailed evacuation behavior of at-risk individuals into account. In this study, an advanced approach to estimating the number of tsunami casualties, which is based on a tsunami evacuation simulation model that considers a variety of evacuation behaviors of local residents and visitors, is presented and applied to Yuigahama Beach, Kamakura City, Japan.