caa a22 4500 467936277 CHVBK 20180406152958.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11069-006-0027-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11069-006-0027-5 A method for estimating casualties due to the tsunami inundation flow [Elektronische Daten] [Shunichi Koshimura, Toshitaka Katada, Harold Mofjeld, Yoshiaki Kawata] This study develops a method for estimating the number of casualties that may occur while people evacuate from an inundation zone when a tsunami has inundated an area. The method is based on a simple model of hydrodynamic forces as they affect the human body. The method uses a Tsunami casualty index (TCI) computed at each grid point of a numerical tsunami model to determine locations and times within the tsunami inundation zone where evacuation during the tsunami inundation is not possible and therefore where casualties are likely to occur. The locations and times can be combined with information about population density to compute the potential number of casualties. This information is useful in developing tsunami evacuation routes that avoid such locations. To illustrate the method, it is applied to the Seattle waterfront in Washington State, USA, that is under the threat of possible tsunami disasters due to Seattle Fault earthquakes. Preliminary results suggest that the tsunami casualties may occur within the Seattle waterfront for 15min, during the time interval from 3 to 18min after a large Seattle Fault tsunami is generated when the background tide level is mean high water. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2006 Tsunami nationallicence Casualty nationallicence Inundation flow nationallicence Evacuation nationallicence Koshimura Shunichi Disaster Control Research Center, School of Engineering, Tohoku Unversity, 6-6-1104, Aramaki, Aoba, 980-8579, Sendai, Japan aut Katada Toshitaka Department of Civil Engineering, Gunma University, Gunma, Japan aut Mofjeld Harold NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, 98115, Seattle, Washington, USA aut Kawata Yoshiaki Research Center for Disaster Reduction Systems, DPRI, Kyoto University, Osaka, Japan aut Natural Hazards Kluwer Academic Publishers 39/2(2006-10-01), 265-274 0921-030X 39:2<265 2006 39 11069 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-006-0027-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-006-0027-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Koshimura Shunichi Disaster Control Research Center, School of Engineering, Tohoku Unversity, 6-6-1104, Aramaki, Aoba, 980-8579, Sendai, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Katada Toshitaka Department of Civil Engineering, Gunma University, Gunma, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mofjeld Harold NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, 98115, Seattle, Washington, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kawata Yoshiaki Research Center for Disaster Reduction Systems, DPRI, Kyoto University, Osaka, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Natural Hazards Kluwer Academic Publishers 39/2(2006-10-01), 265-274 0921-030X 39:2<265 2006 39 11069 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer