Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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A Unified Multievent Windstorm Performance Testbed for Single-Family Residential Buildings
(ASCE, 2024/05/01)Recent advancements in technology and infrastructure have greatly improved the capabilities of the natural hazards community to collect robust samples of building performance following hazard events and make them available ... -
An Agent-Based Modeling Approach to Protective Action Decision-Related Travel during Tornado Warnings
(ASCE, 2024/02/01)Tornadoes represent a significant threat to life and property and tend to evoke protective action in most people. Studies have suggested that many people travel to the nearest storm shelter or flee the area, rather than ... -
Performance Comparison of Landslide Susceptibility Maps Derived from Logistic Regression and Random Forest Models in the Bolaman Basin, Türkiye
(ASCE, 2024/02/01)Landslides often cause significant economic and human losses, and therefore landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM) has become increasingly important. Accurate assessment of LSM is important for appropriate land use management ... -
Systemic Vulnerabilities in Hispanic and Latinx Immigrant Communities Led to the Reliance on an Informal Warning System in the December 10–11, 2021, Tornado Outbreak
(ASCE, 2024/05/01)On December 10–11, 2021, the deadliest December tornado outbreak on record produced a family of EF4 tornadoes that severely impacted communities in Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee. Although the National Weather ... -
Earthquake Early Warning Riskwork: ShakeAlert’s Operation with Institutionalized Uncertainties
(ASCE, 2024/05/01)The US West Coast’s earthquake early warning system ShakeAlert detects earthquakes as they happen and creates rapid signals that can reach users before shaking does. ShakeAlert is an ambitious system, involving many entities ... -
Flood Hazards Mapping by Linking CF, AHP, and Fuzzy Logic Techniques in Urban Areas
(ASCE, 2024/02/01)Flooding has become a devastating natural hazard worldwide, posing a substantial hazard to civilization and leading to socioeconomic losses. Urban flooding in India is on the rise due to unplanned urbanization, uncontrolled ... -
Spatial Allocation of Shelters Considering the Blockage Effect on Roads during an Earthquake
(ASCE, 2024/02/01)The reasonable spatial allocation of shelters in key urban areas and the improvement of the evacuation efficiency are critical agendas in the field of earthquake mitigation and resilient cities. Based on the conventional ... -
Methods to Include the Impact of Factors in Postearthquake Cost Estimations for Earthquake Damage Repair Work
(ASCE, 2024/02/01)Earthquakes are catastrophic natural disasters, and the built environment requires a quick recovery after such events. Estimating the loss from an earthquake can be complex as unique factors, in addition to conventional ... -
Probabilistic Hazard Assessment of Bridges under Multihazard Actions during the Life-Cycle Period
(ASCE, 2024/05/01)Various hazards can have immediate or long-term impacts on the safety of bridges, and the interactions between them are complicated. This study examined the multihazard concerns in bridge engineering. Through a comprehensive ... -
Hazards and Incarceration Facilities: Evaluating Facility-Level Exposure to Floods, Wildfires, Extreme Heat, and Landslides in Colorado
(ASCE, 2024/02/01)Incarcerated people are some of the most vulnerable and at risk in our society. One understudied source of this high risk is the exposure of incarceration facilities to environmental hazards. This study addresses this gap ... -
Effect of Anti-Price Gouging Law on Postdisaster Recovery Speed: Evidence from Reconstruction in Virginia and Maryland after Hurricane Sandy
(ASCE, 2023/11/01)In the wake of a disaster, the price of essential goods and services, including reconstruction materials and labor, sharply increases. Price gouging refers to sellers and supply companies charging exorbitant prices for ... -
Factors Influencing Willingness to Share Resources Postdisaster: A Cross-Cultural Comparison between US and Japanese Communities
(ASCE, 2023/11/01)When large-scale disasters occur, people often are left on their own to seek critical resources: food, water, medications, and other important items. Historically, government agencies have developed disaster preparedness ... -
Social Media Data Analysis: A Focus on the Government–Citizen Dynamic
(ASCE, 2023/11/01)Social media scholarship inadequately conceptualizes the online interactions between emergency managers and the communities they serve. Limited data availability, data formatting constraints, and the general failure of ... -
Predictions of Damage to Timber-Framed Houses. II: Aligning Social and Engineering Predictions of Earthquake Damage before and after Strengthening
(ASCE, 2023/11/01)This paper is the second of two companion papers that seeks to compare homeowners’ expectations of damage and engineering predictions of damage to timber-framed houses before and after undertaking seismic structural ... -
Disaster Education in the Context of Postsecondary Education: A Systematic Literature Review
(ASCE, 2023/08/01)The upward tendency of global disasters and associated losses urgently calls for enhancing disaster education (DE) and professional training. Although postsecondary education institutions (PSEIs) play an essential role in ... -
Hurricane Risk of Solar Generation in the United States
(ASCE, 2023/11/01)Projections indicate that solar energy will constitute 55% of total electricity capacity by 2050 in the US. Despite solar energy’s growing importance, few studies have analyzed the risks of countrywide deployments of solar ... -
Sensing Flooded Roads to Support Roadway Mobility during Flooding: A Web-Based Tool and Insights from Needs Assessment Interviews
(ASCE, 2023/11/01)Reliable sensing of roadway conditions during flooding is a long-standing, challenging problem with societal importance for roadway safety. Tools that provide real-time data on road conditions during floods can facilitate ... -
Household Adaptations to and Impacts from Electric Power and Water Outages in the Texas 2021 Winter Storm
(ASCE, 2023/11/01)In February 2021, a winter storm brought snow, ice, and freezing temperatures, which caused severe interruptions in the electric power and water supply systems in Texas and surrounding areas. In this paper, we use survey ... -
Predicting Flash Flood Economic Damage at the Community Scale: Empirical Zero-Inflated Model with Semicontinuous Data
(ASCE, 2023/11/01)Rainfall-induced flash floods are characterized by their rapid onset and small spatial scale. With little lead time for warning, floodwater can accumulate rapidly and its force can damage roads, swamp houses, destroy ... -
Commercial Building Recovery Methodology for Use in Community Resilience Modeling
(ASCE, 2023/11/01)Commercial businesses in an area affected by a natural hazard can have significant interruption and disruption because of damage and impeding factors including financing delays. The recovery of commercial buildings is a ...