Anisotropic path modeling to assess pedestrian-evacuation potential from Cascadia-related tsunamis in the US Pacific Northwest

Natural Hazards

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 275-300

  Wood, Nathan J ^a   Schmidtlein, Mathew C ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascadia; Evacuation; Least cost distance; Modeling; Pedestrian; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EARTHQUAKE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEDESTRIAN; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TSUNAMI;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860886140     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-9994-2     Document Type: Article

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