  This article describes the development of an agent-based model (AMEL,
Agent-based Model for Earthquake evacuation in Lebanon) that aims at simulating
the movement of pedestrians shortly after an earthquake. The GAMA platform was
chosen to implement the model. AMEL is applied to a real case study, a district
of the city of Beirut, Lebanon, which potentially could be stricken by a M7
earthquake. The objective of the model is to reproduce real life mobility
behaviours that have been gathered through a survey in Beirut and to test
different future scenarios, which may help the local authorities to target
information campaigns.
