Abstract
In the short period after the earthquake, the outside relief forces know nothing about the casualties in the stricken area, which causes a lot of trouble to the medical relief work. Analyzing the impact factors of earthquake casualties, finding the earthquake casualties occurrence pattern, establishing the casualties model, and predicting the earthquake casualties have a significant impact on the rapid implementation of the earthquake medical relief and saving casualties.
After many factors of seismic casualties such as earthquake magnitude, building damage after the earthquake, earthquake occurrence time, personnel in the room rate, medical relief situation, and casualty evacuation situation were analyzed, we selected appropriate variables, using data of Yushu earthquake casualty, and established a Pareto model in MATLAB software. Through analyzing simulated earthquake casualty incidence, we expected earthquake casualty rescue efficiency can be improved to some extent.
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Liu, Z., Zhang, L. (2016). Modeling the Occurrences of Earthquake Casualties. In: Zhang, L. (eds) Modeling the Injury Flow and Treatment after Major Earthquakes. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7527-4_2
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