The Post-Natural Disasters People Losses and Damage Simulator (Ḧ-Simulator)

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a new applicable tool to evaluate any post-natural disaster and its impact on people losses and damage, the new applicable tool is entitled “the post-natural disaster people losses and damage simulator (Ḧ-Simulator).” Subsequently, the Ḧ-Simulator works under the application of five indicators such as (i) the post-natural disaster people losses and damage ratio (Ḧ-Ratio); (ii) the post-natural disaster people losses and damage and damage balance (Ḧ-balance); (iii) the post-natural disaster people losses and damage marginal rate (Ḧ-Marginal Rate); (iv) the post-natural disaster people losses and damage critical point (Ḧ-Critical Point); (v) the post-natural disaster people losses and damage surface (Ḧ-Surface). However, the measurement of the Ḧ-Ratio, in turn, is based on simultaneously evaluating nine exogenous sub-variables followed by: (i) the number of death people by Km2 (sv1); (ii) the total number of missing people by Km2 (sv2); (iii) the total number of trapped people by Km2 (sv3); (iv) the total number of minor injured people by Km2 (sv4); (v) the total number of critical injured people by Km2 (sv5); (vi) the total number of infected people by diseases or epidemics by Km2 (sv6); (vii) the total number of people affected by water and air pollution by Km2 (sv7); (viii) the capability of food and water reserves for all people by Km2 (sv8); (ix) the total number of patients that each hospital is capable to attend by Km2 (sv9). The main objective of the Ḧ-Simulator is to evaluate the people losses and damage directly or indirectly for any natural hazard, along with all possible natural hazards such as earthquake, tsunami, floods, volcano eruption, typhoon, fire pollution, snow avalanches, landslide, blizzards, cyclonic storms, Tornadoes, epidemics, droughts, hailstorms, sandstorm, and hurricane. Finally, the Ḧ-Simulator offers a Microsoft excel worksheet to input, storage, classified, calculate, and visualize the people losses and damage by Km2 originated by any type of natural hazard respectively.