Tsunami Risk Analysis Applied to the City of Cádiz
This report provides tsunami risk analysis applied to the city of Cádiz. The results of the numerical modeling, hazard and vulnerability analyses are combined to produce tsunami risk zonation maps. In order to characterize the tsunami hazard, the University of Cantabria (UCa) together with the Instituto Geográphico Nacional (IGN) generated a series of inundation maps for return periods of 500, 1000, 5000 and 10 000 years. In addition to the specific probabilistic maps, a so-called ¿worst case¿ scenario was elaborated using a deterministic approach. The inundation maps served as a basis for the production of tsunami hazard zonation maps. The vulnerability assessment of the population was performed by the UN-EHS and is based on the three components exposure, coping capacity and susceptibility. Having available the required hazard and vulnerability data allowed us to produce tsunami risk zonation maps for two selected scenarios which are 1) a ¿5000 year¿ event and 2) a ¿worst case¿ scenario. Furthermore, the tsunami mortality was estimated in order to illustrate the potential for fatalities distributed over the city districts. The results of the tsunami risk analysis should help decision makers to effectively prepare, mitigate and manage this hazard. In the Cádiz city these are the Spanish Directorate of Civil Protection and Emergency Planning and Demarcacion de Costats Andalucia Atlantico Direccion General de Costas.
JELINEK Robert;
KRAUSMANN Elisabeth;
2009-08-06
OPOCE
JRC52775
1018-5593,
EUR 23956 EN,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC52775,
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