Tsunami Evacuation Planning and Mapping along Coastal Area of Porbandar City Gujarat, India

Abstract

Uncompromising natural Hazard, like e.g. tsunamis or quake, frequently guide to misery with spectacular consequences.
In these days natural disasters caused loss hundreds of thousands of human, defloration to infrastructure, loss of billions
of money worth of material and disturbance of financial activity.The overall plan of action of this study focuses on
developing a tsunami evacuation map to transfuse to a tsunami early warning information system for Indian subcontinent.
This presents the hazard mapping for Tsunami and strategy for Tsunami evacuation for Porbandar city(Latitude: 21.6300°
N Longitude: 69.6000° E) The need for the study is to conversant people for the hazard of tsunami and also saving
maximum lives when tsunami occurs there in possible shortest time. The past historical earthquakes of Tsunamigenic
source of Makran subduction zone which was responsible for causing tsunami on western coast of Gujarat state of for
Indian subcontinent are studied. This work is about natural disaster evacuation planning and management for study area.
Tsunamis can represent a significant risk to the population and cause huge economic failure in many coastal regions. The
results of this study can be utilized in many useful way such as, by public policy and decision makers in developing
disaster management strategies.