Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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Perception versus Preparedness: Unveiling the Gap and Its Significance for Landslide Risk Management in Nepal
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Landslides have an enormous impact on the livelihood of people in the Himalayan mountain region, and have led to thousands of deaths in Nepal alone. Understanding people’s perceptions is crucial for policy formulation in ... -
Movement Morphology and Mechanical Characteristics of Small Landslide Debris Flow
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The structural damage of buried pipelines is caused by the strong impact and pressure of landslide debris flow (LDF), which in turn affects the integrity and function of a pipeline. To ensure the safety of natural gas ... -
Modifying Social Vulnerability Indices to Complement Physical Exposure Risk Analyses
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Multivariate social vulnerability indices, used to compare communities’ susceptibility to adverse disaster outcomes, cannot be combined with physical exposure risk estimates without double-counting some effects and potentially ... -
Mission-Guided Resilience Investment Allocation for Buildings on DoD Installations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Resilience-based design is emerging as an important frontier in the building design community, seeking to better support communities to absorb and recover from adverse events. Currently the minimum requirements of modern ... -
Machine Learning for Predicting Prehurricane Structural Damage
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)This study proposes a novel framework for the prediction of structural damages caused by extreme weather and climate events. In current practice, following a weather event, inspectors manually evaluate damaged structures ... -
Investigating the Impacts of Built Environment Knowledge on Hurricane Evacuation Intentions in a College Student Sample: A Test of the Power of Information
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)During hurricanes, residents’ evacuation decisions are significantly influenced by their knowledge and risk perceptions. However, many residents may lack a precise understanding of the structural integrity of their homes ... -
Incorporating Flood Loss Estimation into Urban Planning and Development Scenarios
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Although disaster-related economic losses continue to accelerate in the US, local hazard mitigation in many cases remains fragmented from mainstream forms of city planning. This paper demonstrates a methodological innovation ... -
Improving the Government’s Rumor–Refutation Effectiveness in Major Public Health Emergencies for Urban Resilience Enhancement: A Case Study of China during COVID-19
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Accelerated by the widespread use of social media, Internet rumors in major public health emergencies will destroy urban resilience. To find the path to improve the effectiveness of government rumor–refutation in major ... -
Impact of Climate Variability on the Feeding Glaciers of Potentially Dangerous Glacial Lakes in the Jhelum Basin of Kashmir Himalaya, India
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Global climate change has resulted in the widespread melting of glaciers. The formation of new lakes and the expansion of existing lakes has now become a common phenomenon in high mountainous regions due to the continuous ... -
Flood Risk Assessment Methodology for Complex Railway Networks: Application to the National Rail Network in Great Britain
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Rail networks comprise complex interdependent systems with extensive trackside and off-track assets that are exposed to extreme weather-related hazards. In this paper, a methodology is presented for flood risk assessment ... -
Earthquake Performance Analysis and Retrofitting of an Existing School Building by Different Methods
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Concrete structures designed prior to the implementation of modern building codes are still in use today. These structures are known for their inadequate design and poor performance during earthquakes. In this study, a ... -
Developing Tsunami-Resilient Rubble Mound Breakwater: Novel Gabion-Based Technique
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The rubble mound (RM) breakwater, which is a prevalent coastal structure worldwide, often faces the significant challenge of tsunami-induced damage. Coastal regions which are characterized by high population density ... -
Data Mining for Community Resilience: Understanding Stakeholder Value Systems across Communities in the State of Florida
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Achieving community resilience is a complex task, as there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach that can be applied uniformly across all communities. Communities with unique characteristics (e.g., geographic, demographic, ... -
Computer Vision-Enabled Roof Subassembly Damage Detection from Hurricanes Using Aerial Reconnaissance Imagery
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Coastal communities are increasingly vulnerable to devastating losses caused by extreme climatological events such as hurricanes. As risk escalates, an urgent need arises to accelerate learning from these disasters. ... -
Automatic Density-Based Clustering for Operational Modal Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Estimation of modal parameters from ambient response measurements is a central task in structural health monitoring and rapid condition assessment of structures after natural disasters or other damaging events. This task ... -
Verification and Validation of Agent-Based Models for Resilience Analysis and Simulation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Natural hazards can inflict significant damage on communities. It may take a long time for hazard-stricken communities to recover from the losses induced by natural hazards. The concept of community resilience has received ... -
Statistical Assessment of Geological and Geomorphological Factors on Building Damages Caused by the February 6, 2023 Earthquakes in the Amanos Region of Türkiye
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The devastating earthquakes of February 6, 2023, in Türkiye’s Amanos region resulted in over 50,000 fatalities and damaged over 500,000 buildings. This study employs binary logistic regression analysis (area under the curve ... -
Stabilized Slope Using Stone Columns Reinforced with Geotextile Encasement and Laminated Coatings: A Case Study
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study investigates the performance of vertical geotextile encased stone columns (VGESC) and horizontal geotextile coatings reinforced stone columns (HGCRSC) in a small-scale physical model under 1-g conditions. The ... -
Assessing Catchment Vulnerability of Community-Based Small Businesses to Coastal Hazards: Spatial and Sectoral Disparities
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Climatic changes pose significant risks to the demand stability of coastal community-based small businesses (CSBs) due to the inherent vulnerability of their catchment areas. Given such threats, it is imperative for urban ... -
Simulation-Based Models for Postearthquake Response: A Survey and Research Directions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Computer simulation is increasingly being used by emergency planners as a tool to improve disaster response given that it can model real-world scenarios, such as earthquakes. Although there has been an increase in simulation ...