Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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Factors Influencing Individual Disaster Preparedness Information Seeking Behavior: Analysis of US Households
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)Although various scholars have investigated the different types of media that are used by the public to access disaster preparedness information, few studies have sought to understand what factors influence individuals to ... -
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 ... -
Modeling Joint Probability of Wind and Flood Hazards in Boston
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)The Atlantic Coast of the United States is subjected to damage from wind and flooding as a result of coastal storms. This paper seeks to model the joint probability of exceedance for wind speed and flood elevation, two ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Cost of Safety: Holistic Analysis of Market-Based Solutions for Housing in Haiti
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)Access to affordable and safe housing represents a critical challenge for many low- and middle-income countries. Technical and economic constraints frequently lead aspiring homeowners in these countries toward informally ... -
Variability of Mechanical Properties of Cellular Lightweight Concrete Infill and Its Effect on Seismic Safety
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)Cellular lightweight concrete (CLC) block masonry has gained popularity in the masonry market with the growing demand in the modern construction industry due to its various advantages, including a positive impact on the ... -
Initial Screening of Regional Landslide Hazards in the Hunza River Watershed, Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)Landslides pose a significant hazard to life and property in areas vulnerable to mass movements. Qualitative landslide susceptibility maps offer a preliminary means of screening locations likely susceptible to slope ... -
Evolution Characteristics of Postearthquake Emergency Evacuation Demand Based on the Susceptible-Infective and System Dynamics Theories
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)The heterogeneous composition of people living in various areas creates differences in the urban evacuation demand after an earthquake. In this study, four factors that can influence the evacuation demand are discussed: ... -
Community Resilience: Toward a Framework for an Integrated, Interdisciplinary Model of Disaster
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)The science of resilience presents the opportunity to explain how natural, social, and physical systems interact to impact community functioning and well-being postdisaster. This paper describes the development and theoretical ... -
Revisiting Basic Wind Speed of Metro Cities of India
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)An accurate prediction of design wind speed is critical to the estimation of wind loads on any earth-bound civil engineering structure. Concerns have been raised within the Indian design community concerning the precision ... -
Smote–Lasso Model of Business Recovery over Time: Case Study of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)A methodology is presented to combine the synthetic minority oversampling technique and the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator to analyze survey data and identify business characteristics correlated with ... -
Wind Performance Assessment of Postdisaster Housing in the Philippines
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)Although organizations build housing in resource-limited contexts after typhoons and other disasters that is intended to be safer than what existed previously, the performance of these houses in future typhoons—and the ... -
Tornado Hazard Assessment of Residential Structures Built Using Cross-Laminated Timber and Light-Frame Wood Construction in the US
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)Research has continued to broaden understanding of tornadoes and their effect on civil infrastructure. Because a significant portion of the losses associated with tornado events impact residential structures, it is appropriate ... -
Improving Mission Assurance Assessments for Resilience of Military Installations
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)It is critical to improve the resilience of military installations and their complex infrastructure systems to strengthen response to the uncertainty and threat driven by the increasing frequency and severity of natural ... -
Jazz on Tulsa Time: The Remarkable Story of the Network of Flood Mitigation Champions behind the Tulsa Turnaround
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)Decades of scholarship and practitioner reflection point to factors that promote local hazard mitigation planning and implementation, collectively forming the standard model of local hazard mitigation. Attention to the ... -
Planning to Exacerbate Flooding: Evaluating a Houston, Texas, Network of Plans in Place during Hurricane Harvey Using a Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard
(ASCE, 11/1/2021)In August 2017, Hurricane Harvey inundated Houston, Texas, where flooding already was a persistent and growing challenge. Coordinated, proactive land-use planning has been shown to help mitigate flooding hazards, whereas ... -
Changing Logistics of Evacuation Transportation in Hazardous Settings during COVID-19
(ASCE, 8/1/2021)The logistics of public-sponsored evacuation include transportation assets, personnel, and infrastructure. Effective orchestration leading up to a severe weather event is a complex undertaking requiring capacity that is ... -
Deep Learning for Visual Analytics of the Spread of COVID-19 Infection in Crowded Urban Environments
(ASCE, 8/1/2021)The novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus caused a global pandemic in 2020 with millions of diagnosed cases and a staggering number of deaths. As a preventive measure, many governments issued social distancing and shelter-in-place ...