Minutes matter for life safety and risk exposure in Milford Sound, New Zealand.

ABSTRACT: The number of people killed by rapid-onset, highly-lethal natural hazards is usually proportional to the number of people directly exposed yet population mobility makes such exposure temporally variable. In hazardous tourist destinations that are dominated by highly mobile transient visitors, this makes it especially challenging to assess and manage risk. While the temporal dynamics of population exposure have been identified as a necessary input to risk analysis, lack of data and methods means such assessments are limited to using simplified assumptions at low temporal resolution (e.g. day-night variations). Here we show that population can fluctuate by an order of magnitude within minutes, meaning the timing of a hazard event could impact the number of resulting fatalities to a similar d

SUBMITTER: Darling MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12575683 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature