TSUNAMI EVACUATION IN A MASSIVE CROWD EVENT USING AN AGENT-BASED MODEL

Under emergencies, individuals tend to move faster than during normal conditions, i.e., evacuation vs non-evacuation scenarios (Helbing et al., 2000; Cornes 2019; Chen 2018). Evacuations because of false alarms, terrorist attacks, fires, or disasters like earthquakes tsunamis can quickly increase stress levels in people. Activities such as carnivals, festivals, sports, pilgrimages, and marches gather thousands people one place. In the literature, open space tsunami evacuations places beaches are scarce. Studies from Takabatake al. (2018) Lanza (2021) have integrated beach users their simulations. However, studies involving massive including socio-psychological interactions, our knowledge, not documented. The main objective this study is assess human behavior a hypothetical scenario coastal area, using Valparaíso City case study.