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USGS Thesaurus Keywords

tsunamis

Other Subject Keywords

vulnerability, pedestrian, evacuation, modeling

Place Keywords

Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Tinian, Rota, CNMI

Pedestrian evacuation time maps for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands tsunami-hazard zones

The communities of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands are threatened by tsunamis. Experts conducted earthquake and tsunami modeling to estimate the extent of tsunami inundation resulting from a Mariana Subduction Zone (MSZ) earthquake. The Pedestrian Evacuation Analyst Tool (PEAT) was run to estimate pedestrian evacuation travel times out of the MSZ tsunami zone, modelled for slow walk (1.20 meters per second) evacuation travel speed. Three time map shapefiles were created, one for each of three CNMI islands, Saipan, Tinian and Rota.

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Author(s) Nathan J Wood orcid, Jeff Peters orcid
Publication Date 2025-04-29
Beginning Date of Data 2024
Ending Date of Data 2024
Data Contact
Nathan J Wood
DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P13DVWKA
Citation Wood, N.J., and Peters, J., 2025, Pedestrian evacuation time maps for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands tsunami-hazard zones: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P13DVWKA.
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Jeff Peters
Metadata Date 2025-04-29
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