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Pedestrian evacuation times for businesses on the islands of American Samoa, for 2009 and predicted maximum tsunami (PMT) inundation zones by village, modeled at four travel speeds (slow walk, fast walk, slow run, and fast run)

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2018

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Jones, J.L., Jones, J.M., and Wood, N.J., 2018, Pedestrian tsunami evacuation results for two tsunami-inundation zones (2009 and probable maximum tsunami (PMT)) and four travel speeds (slow walk, fast walk, slow run, and fast run) for American Samoa: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9USLV20.

Summary

This dataset contains American Samoa nonresidence count estimates as a function of travel time out of the 2009 and probable maximum tsunami (PMT) inundation zones for four different travel speeds (slow walk, fast walk, slow run, and fast run). The data are organized in a manner which permits summarizing or visualizing the data by business classification (church, community center, education, health care center, hotel, industrial, office, recreation, shelter, and store), tsunami-evacuation zone, and/or travel speed, with business details and evacuation zone/travel speed combinations listed across the top as columns and individual rows representing unique businesses' details in the different evacuation zone/travel speed combinations. [...]

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The objective of these data is to aid in characterizing population vulnerability to tsunami hazards in American Samoa based on fatality demographics and observations of evacuee behavior from the 2009 disaster, projection of probable maximum tsunami hazards in the area, and pedestrian evacuation modeling. This information provides direct assistance to tsunami-planning efforts in American Samoa but also provides insight on evacuation behavior and population vulnerability to other coastal communities throughout the world that are threatened by local tsunami hazards.

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