Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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Household Hurricane Evacuation Plan Adaptation in Response to Estimated Travel Delay Provided Prior to Departure
(ASCE, 2022-03-24)Households have access to real-time travel information via different media. However, the effects of predeparture information about travel delays on households’ evacuation plans (evacuate/stay, departure time, route, and ... -
Analysis of Flood Hazard Alteration: Cascading Effects of Earthquake on Stormwater Collection Network
(ASCE, 2022-03-30)Earthquake can alter flood hazard in a region by impacting the components of stormwater drainage system. A methodology is proposed in this paper to measure flood hazard alteration after an earthquake. The study mainly ... -
Social Media Support Mechanisms for Organizational Adaptation in Governmental Response to Extreme Natural Hazards
(ASCE, 2022-02-28)Extreme natural hazards pose huge challenges to public administration. In the era of social media, governmental response takes the form of complex adaptive systems, applying information technology to support public ... -
Revision of IS 1893: Proposal for an Alternative Soil Classification Scheme and Associated Intensity-Dependent Spectral Amplification Factors
(ASCE, 2022-02-22)This paper provides an improved soil classification scheme and associated spectral acceleration response curves along with the site amplification factors for the ongoing revision of IS 1893 Part-1 [BIS (Bureau of Indian ... -
Determinants of Departure Timing for Hurricane Matthew and Anticipated Consistency in Future Evacuation Departures
(ASCE, 2022-02-07)This work investigated the factors affecting household choice of departure time during evacuations in Hurricane Matthew in 2016. Departure time estimates are needed to predict time-varying evacuation demand for use in ... -
Integrating Household Decisions in Quantifying the Seismic Resilience of Communities Subjected to a Sequence of Earthquakes
(ASCE, 2022-01-24)A distributed simulation model is presented that integrates post-earthquake household decisions into quantifying the seismic resilience of communities subjected to a sequence of earthquakes. A simple multi-attribute rating ... -
Impacts of 2020 Beirut Explosion on Port Infrastructure and Nearby Buildings
(ASCE, 2022-03-02)At 18:08 on August 4, 2020, a large explosion occurred at Hangar 12 in the Port of Beirut. The size of the explosion was equivalent to that of an earthquake with a local magnitude (ML) of 3.3 according to the USGS. As one ... -
Optimization of Distribution of Humanitarian Aid: Cotopaxi Volcano
(ASCE, 2022-01-20)In April 2015, an increase in the seismic activity of the Cotopaxi volcano, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, alarmed local authorities. A potential eruption of the Cotopaxi volcano could affect over 85,000 people. ... -
Patterns of Social Support and Trajectories of Household Recovery after Superstorm Sandy: Contrasting Influences of Bonding and Bridging Social Capital
(ASCE, 2022-01-10)Understanding how vulnerability conditions are related to disruptions in social support and trajectories of recovery after disasters is important for promoting resilience. Based on household survey data from New Jersey ... -
Rapid Perception of Public Opinion in Emergency Events through Social Media
(ASCE, 2021-12-20)Due to its near-real-time crowdsourcing nature, social media demonstrates a great potential of rapidly reflecting public opinion during emergency events. However, systematic approaches are still desired to perceive public ... -
A Bayesian Network Modeling Approach for Time-Varying Flood Resilience Assessment of Housing Infrastructure System
(ASCE, 2022-02-07)Natural hazard causes severe types of damage to infrastructure systems at regular intervals, and the occurrence of such events is inevitable. The concept of resilience is adopted to make infrastructure systems more reliable, ... -
Peak Flood Discharge from a Landslide Dam Outburst
(ASCE, 2022-01-10)A rapid method for estimating the peak discharge from a breached landslide dam is developed from an analysis of 42 outburst floods. Systematic classification of the river blockages based on the landslide type, its material ... -
The Dimensions of Individual Support for Coastal Hazard Mitigation: Analysis of a Survey of Upper Texas Coast Residents
(ASCE, 2022-02-03)Although it is largely accepted that disasters offer windows of opportunity for adoption of risk-reduction measures, the dimensions of support for hazard mitigation following a disaster are not well understood. Drawing on ... -
Natural Hazards under Climate Change Conditions: A Case Study of Expectations and their Normative Significance in Protecting Alpine Communities
(ASCE, 2022-03-09)Climate change increases the frequency and intensity of certain kinds of natural hazard events in alpine areas. This interdisciplinary study addresses the hypothetical possibility of relocating the residents of three alpine ... -
Impact of Annual Maximum Wind Speed in Mixed Wind Climates on Wind Hazard for Mainland China
(ASCE, 2021-12-09)The coastal region in mainland China is prone to typhoon winds. However, a systematic analysis of the annual maximum wind speed analysis for typhoon and nontyphoon winds (i.e., mixed wind climate) using the wind records ... -
Detecting and Geolocating City-Scale Soft-Story Buildings by Deep Machine Learning for Urban Seismic Resilience
(ASCE, 2021-12-11)Seismic resilience is of great concern and vital importance for cities in earthquake zones. It is not only desirable but also mandatory for the cities to prepare an emergency response plan for possible seismic events. One ... -
Households Living in Manufactured Housing Face Outsized Exposure to Heat and Wildfire Hazards: Evidence from California
(ASCE, 2022-03-16)Past research has shown that households living in manufactured housing have outsized exposure and vulnerability to multiple climate-related hazards, including floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes. Yet, few studies have ... -
Using Social Media for Economic Disaster Evaluation: A Systematic Literature Review and Real Case Application
(ASCE, 2021-12-02)We propose the usage of social media as the primary way to collect and consolidate disaster data to provide a less costly and faster economic evaluation process. Through a systematic literature review (SLR) of over 406 ... -
Modeling Interdependencies between the Building Portfolio, Transportation Network, and Healthcare System in Community Resilience
(ASCE, 2021-11-25)A community resilience model that takes into account the mutual interdependencies between the building portfolio, transportation network, and healthcare system both during and after a seismic event is presented. The model ... -
Incorporating Socioeconomic Metrics in Civil Engineering Projects: The Resilience Perspective
(ASCE, 2021-12-14)This paper explores the role of socioeconomic metrics in the design, planning and operations of civil engineering projects within the specific context of resilience. The inclusion of resilience analysis and design is ...