A catastrophe model on the evaluation and classification of mine disaster rescue measures*

This paper aims to establish a classification system of mine disaster in order to develop the emergency response management. The study divides the mine disaster into three emergency levels and builds an evaluation model with three core factors, including information scarcity, time urgency and situation complexity. In addition, the study introduces catastrophe progression method to evaluate the seriousness level of mine disaster and takes a case study of mine disaster in Shanxi Province. The results show that the evaluation model has strong operability and practical value to emergency manager and rescuers.