Development and Validation of a Potential-Based Model for City Evacuation in Post-Earthquake Fires

Author:

Nishino Tomoaki1,Tanaka Takeyoshi2,Tsuburaya Shin-ichi3

Affiliation:

1. Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe 657-8501, Japan

2. Research Center for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage, Ritsumeikan University, 56-1 Toji-in Kitamachi, Kita, Kyoto 603-8577, Japan

3. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, 1-1-1 Wadasaki, Hyogo, Kobe 652-8585, Japan

Abstract

A computational model for the city evacuation of residents in post-earthquake fires has been developed. When a major earthquake affects a city in Japan, a tremendous number of evacuees are likely to escape in an urban area from hazards due to urban fires following the earthquake. The proposed model is based on the concept of potential. In this concept, an evacuee travels toward a descending direction of potential in the same manner that water runs from a high point to a low point. The potential is calculated from such hazard levels as the intensity of thermal radiation and the temperature rise caused by wind-blown fire plumes. In this paper, we simulate the evacuation behavior of residents in the 1923 Kanto earthquake fires to validate the proposed model. The number of fatalities estimated by the model is in reasonable agreement with the number of fatalities reported from the survey after the fires.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Geophysics,Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology

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