The Application of the Post-Typhoon Damage Model (Ṫ-Model) to The Typhoon Hagibis in Japan (October 2019)

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Mario Arturo Ruiz Estrada

Econographication Virtual Laboratory (EVL); Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala - Facultad de Ciencias Economicas

Donghyun Park

Asian Development Bank - Economic Research

Michitaka Umemoto

University of Tsukuba

Jeet Sapkota

Kwansei Gakuin University; University of Tsukuba, Masters Program in Peace and Development Through Sport

Date Written: November 15, 2019

Abstract

We introduce a new tool to evaluate the human and economic impact of typhoons. The new applicable tool is the “post-typhoon damage Model (Ṫ-Model)”. The Ṫ-Model is based on the application of six indicators, namely (i) post-typhoon damage ratio (Ṫ(i)-Ratio); (ii) post-typhoon damage total value (Ṫ(j)-Total Value); (iii) post-typhoon damage balance (Ṫ(j)-Balance); (iv) post-typhoon damage marginal rate (Ṫ(j)-Marginal Rate); (v) post-typhoon damage critical point (Ṫ(j)-Critical Point); and (vi) post-typhoon damage surface (Ṫ(j)-Surface). The measurement of the six indicators is based, in turn, on simultaneously evaluating nine sub-variables (svi). The nine sub-variables are all defined to be within a perimeter of 10 km2. The sub-variables are number of deaths (sv1), total number of missing people (sv2), total number of sick people (sv3), total number of people with minor injuries (sv4), total number of critically injured people (sv5), total number of people evacuated(sv6), total number of people with access to water and electricity (sv7), total number of people with access to food and water (sv8), and total number of hospitalized people (sv9). The central objective of the Ṫ-Model is to evaluate the human and economic impact from a typhoon. The model generates a Microsoft excel worksheet that inputs, stores, classifies, calculates, and visualizes a typhoon’s human and economic damage within a perimeter of 10 km2. Finally, the Ṫ-Model was applied to the Hagibis typhoon which hit Japan in October 2019.

Keywords: typhoon, natural hazards, evaluation, simulation, Japan, natural disaster

JEL Classification: Q54, O40

Suggested Citation

Ruiz Estrada, Mario Arturo and Park, Donghyun and Umemoto, Michitaka and Sapkota, Jeet, The Application of the Post-Typhoon Damage Model (Ṫ-Model) to The Typhoon Hagibis in Japan (October 2019) (November 15, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3487478 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3487478

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Donghyun Park

Asian Development Bank - Economic Research ( email )

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Michitaka Umemoto

University of Tsukuba ( email )

Tsukuba University , Ibaraki Ken
Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Ibaraki 3050006
Japan

Jeet Sapkota

Kwansei Gakuin University ( email )

1-155 Uegahara 1banchō
Nishinomiya, Hyogo 662-0891
Japan

HOME PAGE: http://researchers.kwansei.ac.jp/view?l=en&u=200001057&kc=1&n=Sapkota&sm=name&sl=ja&sp=1

University of Tsukuba, Masters Program in Peace and Development Through Sport

1-1-1 Tennodai
Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577
Japan

HOME PAGE: http://https://tkjids.taiiku.tsukuba.ac.jp/

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