Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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A Scenario-Driven Fault-Control Decision Support Model for Disaster Preparedness Using Case-Based Reasoning
(ASCE, 2023/11/01)To reduce disaster response failures, controlling disaster preparedness faults is essential. Emergency management departments should analyze the lack of capability as soon as an early warning is released and make adaptive ... -
Effects of Climate Change and Urbanization on Bridge Flood Vulnerability: A Regional Assessment for Harris County, Texas
(ASCE, 2023/08/01)The failure of stream-crossing bridges during flood events can endanger human life, impede evacuation planning and emergency response efforts, and cause long-term disruptions to transportation systems and local and regional ... -
Capacity-Building to Support Safer Housing through Appropriate Hurricane Strap Use
(ASCE, 2023/08/01)Amid rising global disaster risks, governmental and nongovernmental organizations have called for increased technical assistance to build capacity within communities to build safer housing. However, limited research has ... -
What Improves Evacuations: Exploring the Hurricane-Forecast-Evacuation System Dynamics Using an Agent-Based Framework
(ASCE, 2023/11/01)The hurricane-forecast-evacuation system is complex and dynamic, making it difficult to diagnose potential challenges and implement effective intervention strategies to ensure successful evacuations for everyone. Here we ... -
Fragility and Recovery Models for Energy, Water, and Wastewater Systems for Seismic Regional Risk and Resilience Assessment: State-of-the-Art Review and Database
(ASCE, 2023/11/01)Fragility functions and recovery models are often used to assess lifeline systems subjected to extreme hazards. However, even though many databases for fragility and recovery models exist for essential buildings and ... -
Hurricane Wind Loss Estimation for Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands: Model Implementation and Validation
(ASCE, 2023/11/01)The implementation and validation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Hazus Hurricane Model for Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands are presented in this paper. Previous versions of the model addressed 22 ... -
Hazus Hurricane Wind Model for the US Caribbean Territories: Hazard Modeling and Development of Residential Damage Functions
(ASCE, 2023/11/01)The Hazus Hurricane Model has been extended to include the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The hurricane hazard model uses the same model incorporated into the design wind speeds given in US and Caribbean wind loading ... -
Resilience as Property Value Rebound: Analysis of Expanded Datasets from Hurricanes Ike and Irma
(ASCE, 2023/11/01)For residential structures in America’s coastal communities, resilience is an essential system quality. Such resilience is best conceptualized as a given system’s ability to anticipate, respond to, recover from, and adapt ... -
Multiobjective Optimization for Hurricane Retrofit to Improve Coastal Community Structural and Socioeconomic Resilience
(ASCE, 2022/11/01)With recent hurricanes causing devastating economic losses, structural damages, and societal impacts on coastal communities, residential building hurricane mitigation measures have gained increasing attention. However, ... -
Governors and Hazard Mitigation Grants Management: Observations of
(ASCE, 2022/11/01)This paper describes hazard mitigation grants management activities undertaken by -
Managing Postdisaster Reconstruction after the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake and Lessons Learned
(ASCE, 2022/11/01)The 2015 Gorkha earthquake was one of the most devastating earthquakes in Nepal in this century. Postdisaster reconstruction is a complex and highly challenging process, especially concerning developing countries like ... -
Foundation and Development of Natural Catastrophe Modeling
(ASCE, 2022/11/01)The quantification of damage potential is an essential prerequisite for mitigating the impact of natural hazards on the built environment of a country. Catastrophe models are complex computer programs that allow us to ... -
Assessing Human Resources Development in Volcano Observatories Using the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Survey
(ASCE, 2022/11/01)The purpose of this study was to assess the role played by the International Training Course, given by the Center for the Study of Active Volcanoes (CSAV) at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo, in the development of human ... -
Evaluation of Hurricane Evacuation Order Plans: Hurricane Florence
(ASCE, 2022/11/01)This paper introduces an approach to evaluate the performance of a previously -
Seismic Stability Analysis of Caissons under Earthquake Forces Considering 3D Log-Spiral Failure Surface
(ASCE, 2022/11/01)Bridge failure is mostly caused by geotechnical failure. Because caissons are the automatic choice for foundation systems for marine structures, such as bridges and wind turbines, this study addresses the determination of ... -
Modeling Temporal Accessibility of an Urban Road Network during an Extreme Pluvial Flood Event
(ASCE, 2022/11/01)This study presents a model-based framework to assess the time-varying accessibility of a roadway network on a system-wide level during extreme flood events. A regional MIKE 21 hydrodynamic model consisting of 1,912,576 ... -
Efficacy of Damage Data Integration: A Comparative Analysis of Four Major Earthquakes
(ASCE, 2022/11/01)Weeks after a disaster, crucial response and recovery decisions require information on the locations and scale of building damage. Geostatistical data integration methods estimate post-disaster damage by calibrating ... -
COVID-19 Morbidity, Vaccine Side Effects, and Vaccine Hesitancy among
(ASCE, 2022/11/01)COVID-19 research conducted in the pre-vaccine era indicates strong hesitancy -
Seismic Retrofit Added 17% to the Resale Value of Older California Houses
(ASCE, 2022/11/01)We examined the resale prices of 217 recently sold California single-family dwellings built before 1960 to determine whether buyers value seismic retrofit. Of these, sellers indicated that 29 houses had been seismically ... -
Simple Method for Shallow Landslide Prediction Based on Wide-Area Terrain Analysis Incorporated with Surface and Subsurface Flows
(ASCE, 2022/11/01)During intense rainfall, shallow landslides often occur on natural slopes due to the rising groundwater level. This study proposed a simple model for rainfall-induced shallow landslide prediction in broad areas based on ...