{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Jeff Peters", "hasEmail": "mailto:jpeters@usgs.gov"}, "description": "These datasets support the conclusions in the journal article entitled \"Modeling non-structural strategies to reduce pedestrian evacuation times for mitigating local tsunami threats in Guam\" as described in the abstract below: Reducing the potential for loss of life from local tsunamis is challenging for emergency managers given the need for self-protective behavior within brief windows of time for at-risk individuals to evacuate. There has been considerable attention paid to discussing the construction of tsunami vertical-evacuation structures for areas where there is insufficient time to evacuate. This strategy may not be feasible for at-risk populations in island communities for multiple reasons. We examine the influence of three non-structural interventions (reducing departure delays, increasing travel speeds, and managing vegetation to create new paths) that may improve the evacuation potential for at-risk individuals in island communities and use the US territory of Guam as our case study. We model pedestrian travel times out of a modeled inundation zone for a local tsunami generated by a Mw 8.3 earthquake within the Mariana subduction zone. Evacuation-modeling results indicate that reducing departure delays has a larger impact than increasing travel speeds or creating evacuation corridors through heavy brush on reducing the number of at-risk individuals with insufficient time to evacuate. Travel times to safety are shorter than lead times of expected wave arrivals for all at-risk individuals in the tsunami-hazard zone if one assumes all three interventions are implemented.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.5066/P93794E6", "description": "Landing page for access to the data", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "application/http", "title": "Digital Data"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "description": "The metadata original format", "downloadURL": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.638e5260d34ed907bf7bc838.xml", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}], "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_638e5260d34ed907bf7bc838", "keyword": ["USGS:638e5260d34ed907bf7bc838", "evacuation", "modeling", "pedestrian", "tsunamis", "vulnerability"], "modified": "2023-07-18T00:00:00Z", "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "spatial": "144.6526, 13.2459, 144.7736, 13.3501", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "Pedestrian evacuation time maps, flow depth time series, and population estimates for the island of Guam tsunami evacuation zone"}