Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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Learning from Façade Failures over Urban Landscape: Aftermath of Cyclone Vardah
(ASCE, 2/1/2021)The failure of building façades is one of the prime factors governing economic losses due to extreme wind events. This paper presents the details of a postdisaster field investigation performed after the very severe cyclonic ... -
Taiwan’s Experience in Disaster Coordination
(ASCE, 2/1/2021)Taiwan is located on the earthquake-prone circum-Pacific belt and seasonal typhoon impact zone. Given Taiwan’s large population and high urban density, disasters can have serious consequences on its economy, environment, ... -
Institutional Coordination of Disaster Management: Engaging National and Local Governments in Japan
(ASCE, 2/1/2021)Coordinating a wide range of organizations is crucial for disaster management. This paper reviews the coordinating mechanisms of disaster management in Japan, in particular focusing on the relationship between national and ... -
Allocation of Temporary Disaster-Response Facilities for Relief-Supplies Distribution: A Stochastic Optimization Approach for Afterdisaster Uncertainty
(ASCE, 2/1/2021)In disaster operations management, the prepositioning of relief supplies might improve the efficiency of the corresponding operations significantly. Developing new strategies based on this idea for relief-supplies distribution ... -
Seismicity and Seismic Design/Assessment in the State of Tennessee: A Case Study
(ASCE, 2/1/2021)Tennessee has been known as The Volunteer State since the War of 1812 when thousands of Tennesseans enlisted in response to Governor Blount’s call for volunteers. Similarly, the state of Tennessee recently adopted the ... -
Hurricane Freshwater Flood Risk Assessment Model for Residential Buildings in Southeast US Coastal States Considering Climate Change
(ASCE, 5/1/2021)A significant amount of hurricane losses are caused by rainfall-induced freshwater flooding, and hurricane precipitation is expected to increase in the warming climate. However, the climate change impact on the hurricane ... -
Seismic Behavior of Plan and Vertically Irregular Structures: State of Art and Future Challenges
(ASCE, 5/1/2021)Buildings with asymmetry and various classes of irregularity are found to be a major cause for collapses of structure, property loss, and casualties during earthquakes. Such observations have been documented from previous ... -
Red Tide Occurrence and Its Socioeconomic Impacts: Case of the Municipality of Puerto Montt, Chile
(ASCE, 2/1/2021)In 2016, in the Chilean commune of Puerto Montt, located in the Los Lagos region, the natural disaster known as the Red Tide took place due to the proliferation of one or several species of microalgae. This phenomenon has ... -
Flood Damage Assessment in HAZUS Using Various Resolution of Data and One-Dimensional and Two-Dimensional HEC-RAS Depth Grids
(ASCE, 2/1/2021)The accurate assessment of flood damage in the aftermath of major flooding is crucial for studying flood vulnerability, risk mapping, and comparative risk analysis. However, the accuracy of damage prediction by a model ... -
Next Generation Fragility Functions for Seismically Designed Highway Bridges in Moderate Seismic Zones
(ASCE, 2/1/2021)Despite the potential of high-consequence events, rarity of earthquake occurrences in moderate seismic zones and a misconstrued perception of risk has often led to a delayed onset of seismic detailing practices for highway ... -
Military Forces, Coercive Signals, and Disaster Response Effectiveness
(ASCE, 2/1/2021)Why do governments deploy their armed forces to respond to certain foreign natural disasters but not others? What factors influence successful coordination between national and foreign militaries implementing disaster ... -
Effects of Infrastructure Service Disruptions Following Hurricane Irma: Multilevel Analysis of Postdisaster Recovery Outcomes
(ASCE, 2/1/2021)Widespread power outages and related critical infrastructure disruptions after major storms can thwart household and community recovery by limiting access to critical facilities and services. In this analysis, we examine ... -
Disasters, Disaster Aid, and Bankruptcy Filings in the United States
(ASCE, 2/1/2021)The authors measure the extent to which disasters triggered by natural hazards are important adverse events that trigger bankruptcy. To accomplish this, the authors construct a new panel of damage from climatic events and ... -
Applying the Protective Action Decision Model to Explain Cyclone Shutter Installation Behavior
(ASCE, 2/1/2021)Structural upgrades can mitigate property damage caused by tropical cyclones. However, people in high-risk areas do not always install these upgrades. This paper used the protective action decision model (PADM) as a ... -
Value of Information on Resilience Decision-Making in Repeated Disaster Environments
(ASCE, 2/1/2021)This paper reports on a series of controlled experiments with human subjects on the decision of firms to invest in resilience to mitigate supply-chain disruptions and their willingness to pay for advisory information to ... -
Relative Sea Level Rise Impacts on Storm Surge Flooding of Transportation Infrastructure
(ASCE, 2/1/2021)Relative sea level rise increases the vulnerability of coastal infrastructure to storm surge flooding. In this study, we develop, validate, and apply a coupled hydrodynamic and wave model to simulate storm surge inundation ... -
Fuzzy-Based Seismic Risk Prioritization of Steel School Buildings
(ASCE, 2/1/2021)The first and most important step in preparing a seismic retrofit plan for existing buildings is the analysis of seismic risk by conducting studies on retrofitting and preparing qualitative and quantitative reports. The ... -
New Standardized Base Flow Index for Identification of Hydrologic Drought in the Red River of the North Basin
(ASCE, 11/1/2020 )There is an increasing interest in finding effective alternatives for groundwater drought indices due to the scarcity of groundwater data. The objective of this research is to improve hydrologic drought identification by ... -
Dynamic Modeling of In-Event Interdependencies in Community Resilience
(ASCE, 11/1/2020 )A simulation-based model designed to conduct in-event simulation for the assessment and quantification of seismic resilience of communities is presented. The proposed simulation approach employs a dynamic analysis that ... -
Traffic Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Statewide Analysis of Social Separation and Activity Restriction
(ASCE, 8/1/2020 1)The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant social and economic impacts throughout the world. In addition to the health consequences, the impacts on travel behavior have also been sudden and wide ranging. This study ...