Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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Probability Analysis of Landslide Large Deformation Characteristics Based on Copula-RMPM
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Landslides, which are a type of process-based geological hazard, exhibit stagewise characteristics that serve as important guidance for the prevention and mitigation of slope engineering disasters. The cross-correlation ... -
Assessment of Local-Level Community Resilience within the Scope of a Disaster-Resilient City: The Case of Türkiye
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study aimed to assess community resilience to disasters at the local level in Turkey. In this study, a community disaster-resilience index (CDRI) consisting of five subdimensions and 34 basic indicators based on the ... -
Stakeholder-Based Tool for the Analysis of Regional Risk
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper presents the Stakeholder-Based Tool for the Analysis of Regional Risk (STARR), a dynamic, stochastic computational framework designed to inform the creation and analysis of government policies for regional ... -
Machine Learning-Aided Performance-Based Optimal Design of Steel Moment-Resisting Frames Using NSGA-II
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper introduces a novel and rigorous probabilistic methodology for the performance-based design of steel moment-resisting frame buildings. The proposed methodology is consistent with the modern performance-based ... -
Methodology for Virtual Damage Assessment and First-Floor Elevation Estimation: Application to Fort Myers Beach, Florida and Hurricane Ian (2022)
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper presents a methodology for virtual damage assessment (VDA) of building structures using primarily pre- and post-storm street-level and aerial imagery data. The methodology includes component-based damage assessment ... -
The Complete Message Is the Best Message: The Case for Standardizing Wireless Emergency Alerts
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Standardized messaging for alerts and warnings has been made possible through the use of the Warning Lexicon and workflow. The effectiveness of this approach to motivate protective action behaviors, in comparison with the ... -
Influence of Leakage from Buried Drainage Pipes on Shallow Soil Settlement and Urban Road Collapse
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Frequent road collapses caused by water leakages from pipelines pose a severe threat to urban safety and the wellbeing of city residents. Limited research has been conducted on the relationship between pipeline leakage and ... -
Prioritizing Urban Areas for the Deployment of Hyperlocal Flood Sensors Using Stakeholder Elicitation and Risk Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study develops a methodological framework to prioritize urban areas for the deployment of hyper-local, real-time flood-monitoring sensors. These sensors promise enhanced flood risk management in cities, where flood ... -
Impact of Layout and Height on EBFs under Fire: AI Optimization Insights
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Considering the response of structures to intense heat is crucial when designing for potentially life-threatening fires, such as wildfires and postearthquake fires. The attention paid to structural thermal reaction following ... -
Automated Virtual Earthquake Reconnaissance Reporting Using Natural Language Processing
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Posthazard reconnaissance is essential following natural hazards, such as earthquakes, strike a community. Conducting reconnaissance efforts with efficiency and accuracy is necessary to expedite recovery and support ... -
Development of Attention-Based Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Earthquake Prediction in Taiwan
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Located at a tectonic boundary, Taiwan is highly prone to severe earthquakes that often cause significant loss of life and economic damage, underscoring the need for improved prediction methods. While traditional approaches ... -
Strengthening Infrastructure Resilience to Hurricanes by Modeling Transportation and Electric Power Network Interdependencies
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Community resilience is significantly affected by infrastructure disruptions during hurricanes. Resilience is generally defined as the ability of a system to manage shocks and return to a normal state in response to an ... -
Resilience in the Face of Natural Hazards: How Social Quality Shapes Government Financial Behaviors
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study investigates (1) whether natural hazards lead to financial shocks that compel local governments to incur additional public expenditures to address the direct and indirect damages of the hazardous events, ... -
Matrix-Based Resilience Assessment of Community Water Supplies
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)With the rising threat of climate change and cascading impacts from infrastructure failure, there is a growing need to strengthen community resilience. While there are many theoretical and practical frameworks for assessing ... -
Selecting Longitudinal Community Outcomes for Resilience Indicator Validation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Having a scientifically grounded set of community resilience indicators has been a long-sought goal in multiple fields of study and practice. Community resilience is a complex system consisting of emergent properties. ... -
Science-Brokers or Sense-Givers: How Experts Participate in Public Crisis Communication on Social Media
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Although the participations of experts on social media are recognized as important in public crisis communication, research attention to exploring this phenomenon is still lacking. This research discussed the critical and ... -
Methodological Recommendations for Content Validation of Community Resilience Indicators
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Community resilience indicators increasingly have been used in disaster resilience planning and decision making. However, the methods used to validate that such indicators measure what they claim to measure continue to be ... -
Two-Stage Resilience Evaluation for Healthcare Networks from the Adaptability and Recoverability Perspective
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Earthquake hazards have the potential to cause significant disruptions in healthcare networks. This study introduces an innovative resilience assessment framework that addresses adaptability during the short-term emergency ... -
Urban Flood Risk Assessment and Optimization of Shelter Site Selection Following a Pre-Expropriation System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Shelter site selection is a key topic in research on the preparedness and response phases of disaster management, significantly impacting the availability of safe, temporary residential refuges and rescue locations during ... -
Homeowner Priorities for Sustainability and Fire Resilience When Rebuilding Homes after Wildfire
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)After a disaster, homeowners’ rebuilding decisions can reshape the built environment to mitigate hazards and global climate effects. In this study, we explore homeowners’ rebuilding priorities of fire resilience and ...