Emergency resource storage facility location problem considering domino effect after an earthquake

Abstract

In the case of natural disasters, the sufferings of affected people know no bounds. The earth is facing challenges to work for the survival of human being as life become endangered during disasters. Sometimes one natural disaster leads to another disaster, which is termed as a domino effect in the natural disaster. These incidents make the life of people vulnerable who are living in risk zones of a probable disaster incident. Earthquakes of big magnitude can be followed by other disastrous incidents like fire accidents, floods, tsunami, etc. The demand for emergency resources increases due to the domino effect. Organizations associated with making decisions regarding helping the suffered people should try to take necessary steps, which may include storing emergency resources to assist the disaster-affected people. To my knowledge, no previous studies were focusing to store emergency resources for helping people affected by the domino effect in natural disasters. This thesis work tries to give light to this scenario. The probability of domino effect due to natural disaster is calculated at first then with that result along with other necessary data, the location of facilities and the amount of emergency resources at optimum cost has been determined.