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Flood and Tsunami Damage Indices Based on Remotely Sensed Data: An Application to Indonesia
(ASCE, 11/1/2020 )By using freely available remote sensing data, typically used for natural hazard modeling, and combining these with nightlight data as a proxy for economic activity, this paper constructs novel damage indices at the district ... -
Estimation of Shear Wave Velocity and Seismic Site Characterization for New Nuclear Power Plant Region, India
(ASCE, 11/1/2020 )This paper presents a new correlation between standard penetration test (SPT) N values and shear wave velocity (Vs) for a newly proposed nuclear power plant (NPP) region at Haryana state, India. The site location falls ... -
Development of Sinkhole Susceptibility Map of East Central Florida
(ASCE, 11/1/2020 )This paper presents the implementation of the frequency ratio (FR) method to evaluate the contribution of every factor on sinkholes and develop a sinkhole susceptibility map for East Central Florida (ECF). The FR is a ... -
Impossibility of Narrative Bridges across Boundaries: Case Study of Fukushima-Daiichi Accident
(ASCE, 11/1/2020 )This case study identifies human factors that ought to be considered when studying industrial accident conditions, focusing on lessons learned from government involvement in the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear accident, which ... -
Discrete-Outcome Analysis of Tornado Damage Following the 2011 Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Tornado
(ASCE, 11/1/2020 )Ground-truth measurements of damage caused by natural disasters are routinely used to determine which factors of the natural, built, and social environment contribute to losses from these events. Process-based models, which ... -
Importance of Households in Business Disaster Recovery
(ASCE, 11/1/2020 )The authors seek to contribute to the understanding of post-disaster community interdependencies by examining the recovery linkages between businesses and households. Specifically, this research looks to identify the ... -
Equitable Resilience in Infrastructure Systems: Empirical Assessment of Disparities in Hardship Experiences of Vulnerable Populations during Service Disruptions
(ASCE, 11/1/2020 )The objective of this study was to examine social inequality in exposure and hardship experienced by various groups due to infrastructure service disruptions in disasters. After more than two decades, the existing literature ... -
Computational Simulation of Benefit Fraud and Community Resilience in the Wake of Disaster
(ASCE, 11/1/2020 )The monetary assistance provided for disaster relief creates opportunities for fraudulent behavior. Historical records have shown that the loss of recovery funds due to improper and fraudulent payments could reach hundreds ... -
Dynamic Modeling of In-Event Interdependencies in Community Resilience
(ASCE, 11/1/2020 )A simulation-based model designed to conduct in-event simulation for the assessment and quantification of seismic resilience of communities is presented. The proposed simulation approach employs a dynamic analysis that ... -
Multiscale Variability of Historical Meteorological Droughts and Floods in the Middle Yangtze River Basin, China
(ASCE, 11/1/2020 )This paper examines the temporal patterns of historical droughts and floods and associated natural-anthropogenic variations in the middle Yangtze River Basin. Analyses are based principally on yearly meteorological data ... -
Validation of Time-Dependent Repair Recovery of the Building Stock Following the 2011 Joplin Tornado
(ASCE, 11/1/2020 )This paper seeks to calibrate an existing analytical framework to develop building repair fragility models using a restoration dataset collected through a longitudinal field study in the city of Joplin, Missouri, after the ... -
Empirical Local Hazard Models for Bolide Explosions
(ASCE, 11/1/2020 )Bolide explosions are a natural hazard associated with meteoroids or asteroids entering Earth’s atmosphere. Existing hazard models for predicting the frequencies, return periods, and occurrence probabilities of bolide ... -
New Standardized Base Flow Index for Identification of Hydrologic Drought in the Red River of the North Basin
(ASCE, 11/1/2020 )There is an increasing interest in finding effective alternatives for groundwater drought indices due to the scarcity of groundwater data. The objective of this research is to improve hydrologic drought identification by ... -
Joint Risk Assessment of the Secondary Disasters of Rainstorms based on Multisource Spatial Data in Wuhan, China
(ASCE, 11/1/2020 )Rainstorms easily can cause serious secondary disasters such as waterlogging, debris flow, and flood, and the combination of these secondary disasters makes cities more vulnerable. However, to date, few studies have ... -
Opportunities and Challenges of Public Participation in Post-Disaster Recovery Planning: Lessons from Galveston, TX
(ASCE, 11/1/2020 )While public participation can improve recovery planning, post-disaster environments pose unique challenges and opportunities that can enhance or undermine participation depending on the recovery policies and features of ... -
Understanding Infrastructure Resilience, Social Equity, and Their Interrelationships: Exploratory Study Using Social Media Data in Hurricane Michael
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)The 2030 Global Sustainable Development Agenda of the United Nations highlights the importance of understanding the interlinkages of infrastructure, inequality, and resilience. However, there is limited research that studies ... -
Quantifying the Impacts of Storm Surge, Sea Level Rise, and Potential Reduction and Changes in Wetlands in Coastal Areas of the Chesapeake Bay Region
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)Along the North Atlantic coasts of the United States, sea levels are rising at higher rates than the global average. Additionally, sea level rise (SLR) can cause reduction and redistribution of wetlands across the low-lying ... -
Modeling the Influence of Flood Mitigation Measures on the Vulnerability of Coastal Residential Construction
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)Hurricane-induced coastal floods pose a significant threat to near-shore communities for the United States and many other coastal areas around the world. Various mitigation measures have been developed to reduce infrastructure ... -
New Asphalt Shingle Hail Impact Performance Test Protocol and Damage Assessment
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)Laboratory test methods for assessing the hail impact performance of roofing materials were introduced in the 1990s. They are based on older science, in which projectiles match a theoretical kinetic energy and damage is ... -
Rapid Damage Assessment Following Natural Disasters through Information Integration
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)A rapid damage assessment is essential for practitioners to make timely and informed decisions following a disaster. This research aims to provide such an assessment through integrating multisource information that comprises ...