Basic study on Human Behavior for Tsunami Evacuation Simulation using Multi Agent System

摘要: Evacuation models are a modern approach in tsunami risk management; however evacuations are performed by real human beings, thus human behavior is one of the important characteristics that an evacuation model must consider. Several videos from Indian Ocean tsunami 2004, and recently Samoa 2009, show a late reaction of people against tsunamis, even they can watch the incoming tsunami wave. This can be explained through human behavioral aspects (Imamura, 2009), in this study risk bias expressed in the Risk Perception Index controls the behavior for start evacuation and stress condition in emergence situations.