Citizen Movement Control System (CMCS) for Handling the Evacuation Process of an Earthquake

The research worked particularly on the situation where an early warning system fails to forecast the occurrence of an earthquake when the earthquake strikes at night, in a darkness, and in blackout state. As the result, people are assumed to move randomly. Some would sit/stand still, the others would move slowly forward or to the left or to the right. Such a movement would scarcely reach the evacuation area. The research has designed a device, named as the Citizen Movement Control System (CMCS), that uses the coordinate of the evacuation area, measures the coordinate of the device itself, and raises sirens and lights in a particular manner based on the result of the analysis of both coordinates. In such a case, the sirens and lights would guide the citizens to the evacuation area, and would potentially help the provision of the life support from first responders. The simulations suggest that the CMCS would handle citizens properly. In ideal circumstances, inside a square km area, all citizens could be evacuated within 400 seconds. This value is better than the 450 seconds, recommended by the European Centre on Prevention.