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Analysis of effectiveness of tsunami evacuation principles in the 2011 Great East Japan tsunami by using text mining

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Evacuation of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami was a large-scale evacuation of over thousands of people escaping from the earthquake-induced tsunami. The survivors’ evacuation experiences provided valuable insights into the factors that helped with survival and some very important practical issues regarding tsunami evacuation. Therefore, this article analyzes an effectiveness of tsunami evacuation principles from descriptive comments from the survivors and the non-survivors in the 2011 disaster using text mining method. As a result using the Naïve Bayesian classifier, it identifies some of the evacuation behaviors differences taken by the survivors or by the non-survivors under the disaster as an effectiveness of the evacuation principles, and attempts to understand how to provide more practical instructions. Therefore, these results give effective recommendations for evacuation preparation against catastrophic earthquake and tsunami disasters in the future.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Weathernews for making necessary data available. This study could have been completed because Mr. Norio Doi in Development Division of Systems Engineering Consultants Co., LTD. who assisted us. We express our heartfelt gratitude towards Doctor Masanori Hamada for his kind help and inspiring discussions during the data analysis. Dr. Lee’s research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2013R1A1A2009801).

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

    Nam-Yi Yun

  2. Department of Software Convergence Technology, Division of Information and Computer Engineering, Ajou University, Suwon-si, Republic of Korea

    Seok-Won Lee

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Yun, NY., Lee, SW. Analysis of effectiveness of tsunami evacuation principles in the 2011 Great East Japan tsunami by using text mining. Multimed Tools Appl 75, 12955–12966 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-014-2326-2

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