Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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Characterization of Critical Rainfall for Slopes Prone to Rainfall-Induced Landslides
(ASCE, 8/1/2020 1)The paper presents a procedural method to characterize critical rainfall for slopes affected by rainfall. For regions where landslide risk is high and landslide prediction alone is not acceptable, correction of existing ... -
Geoenvironmental Risk Evaluation of High-Efficiency Eco-Economic Zone in Weifang City, China
(ASCE, 8/1/2020 1)Geoenvironmental problems, formed in the process of urbanization, cause potential risks to the urban security and sustainable development. Hence, it is of great significance to evaluate the urban geoenvironmental risk. ... -
Analysis of Material Convergence, Logistics, and Organizational Typology of Animal Supplies in the 2018 Puna Lava Flow
(ASCE, 8/1/2020 1)The following paper is a case study on the Puna lava flow of May 2018 to analyze the group efforts and shifts in group tasks chronologically, specifically for the management of supplies for companion and farm animals. Data ... -
Social Assessment of Community Resilience to Earthquake in Old Dhaka
(ASCE, 8/1/2020 1)The capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka is an earthquake-vulnerable megacity, mainly due to its geological and geographical location, high density of population, and weakly built structures. The historic core of Dhaka, also known ... -
Risk Assessment of Earthquake-Triggered Geohazards Surrounding Wenchuan, China
(ASCE, 8/1/2020 1)The great 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China was a painful disaster. Accordingly, the management and mitigation of the risk of future earthquake-triggered geohazards remain a critical responsibility of local authorities. ... -
New Empirical Model for Breaching of Earth-Rock Dams
(ASCE, 5/1/2020 1)Empirical models are widely used in dam risk analysis because they can estimate the dam breach parameters easily, which enables a quantitative analysis of the breach process to be conducted. In this study, by applying a ... -
Global List and Interactive Web Map of University-Based Hazards and Disaster Research Centers
(ASCE, 5/1/2020 1)This paper describes a novel data set and an accompanying online listing and interactive web map that displays university-based hazards and disaster research centers globally. To date, this initiative has led to the ... -
Understanding Early Warning Messaging about Climate Stressors in the Northern Region of Ghana
(ASCE, 5/1/2020 1)Global climate change has exacerbated the frequency and intensity of climate stressors such as drought, floods, and rainstorms, among others. The onset of these climate stressors cannot be predicted with certainty, but ... -
Earthquake Risk–Management Model for Historic Commercial Urban Fabrics
(ASCE, 5/1/2020 1)Historic urban settings, including traditional marketplaces and bazaars are highly vulnerable to earthquakes, owing to their physical conditions and socioeconomic functionality. Thus, formulation of risk-reduction plans ... -
Mobile Home Parks and Disasters: Understanding Risk to the Third Housing Type in the United States
(ASCE, 5/1/2020 1)Research on affordable housing and disasters in the United States largely focuses on owned and rented housing, the nation’s two most common housing tenures. Researchers have largely overlooked mobile home parks (MHPs), a ... -
Rapid Damage Assessments of Shorelines and Structures in the Florida Keys after Hurricane Irma
(ASCE, 2/1/2020 1)The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active since 2005 and was classified as an extremely active year of coastal storms. Hurricane Irma caused significant damage in the Caribbean islands and Florida Keys. After ... -
Susceptibility Assessments and Validations of Debris-Flow Events in Meizoseismal Areas: Case Study in China’s Longxi River Watershed
(ASCE, 2/1/2020 1)The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake triggered tens of thousands of landslides, resulting in rich loose materials for the 8.13 debris flows. Longchi Town in southwest China’s Sichuan Province was one of the worst hit areas both ... -
Collective Action and Vulnerable Populations: Interorganizational Collaboration for Undocumented Immigrants’ Disaster Safety Following Hurricane Irma 2017
(ASCE, 2/1/2020 1)This qualitative case study aims to gain a greater understanding of collective action among organizations assisting undocumented immigrants in South Apopka, Florida, following Hurricane Irma in 2017. In-depth semistructured ... -
The Relationship between Climate Vulnerability and Disaster Declarations: A Case Study of Flood-Prone Indigenous Communities in Alaska
(ASCE, 2/1/2020 1)Using descriptive statistics, correlation analyses, one-way ANOVA, and an environmental justice lens, we considered the social and physical vulnerability factors associated with climate change and flood-related disaster ... -
First, Do No Harm: Evaluating the Vulnerability Reduction of Post-Disaster Home Buyout Programs
(ASCE, 2/1/2020 1)Post-disaster home buyout programs are intended to reduce hazard vulnerability by facilitating the permanent relocation of people and property away from known hazardous areas. However, the effectiveness of home buyouts in ... -
Comparing Generic and Case Study Damage Functions: London Storm-Surge Example
(ASCE, 2/1/2020 1)Two different approaches are used to assess the impacts associated with natural hazards and climate change in cities. A bottom-up approach uses high resolution data on constituent assets within the urban area. In contrast, ... -
Social and Economic Components of Resilient Multihazard Building Design
(ASCE, 2/1/2020 1)In 2017, United States damages from natural hazard events exceeded $300 billion, suggesting that current targets for building performance do not sufficiently mitigate loss. The significant costs borne by individuals, ... -
Flood and Tsunami Damage Indices Based on Remotely Sensed Data: An Application to Indonesia
(ASCE, 11/1/2020 )By using freely available remote sensing data, typically used for natural hazard modeling, and combining these with nightlight data as a proxy for economic activity, this paper constructs novel damage indices at the district ... -
Development and Performance Assessment of Winter Climate Hazard Models on Traffic Volume with Four Model Structure Types
(ASCE, 2020)Much previous research recognizes hazardous winter-weather conditions such as heavy snowfall and cold temperatures as affecting the change in traffic volume, and modeling has been used to simulate variations in traffic ... -
Quantitative Risk Assessment of Coastal Erosion in the Caribbean Region
(ASCE, 2020)Operational coastal management and planning requires predictions in the short-, medium- and long-term of shoreline changes. In the Caribbean, medium- to long-term beach morphology predictions are not readily available and ...