Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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Improved Regional Earthquake Magnitude Scaling Relations for the Indian Subcontinent
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThis study emphasizes the significance of a homogenous earthquake catalogue for assessing seismicity, seismotectonics, seismic hazard, and seismic risk in a region. While various magnitude scales exist in earthquake ... -
Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Optimal Building-Level Flood Mitigation Strategies in At-Risk Communities
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractFlood-prone communities face severe economic and structural losses, necessitating strategic building retrofitting to enhance resilience. However, selecting the most effective mitigation strategies remains challenging ... -
Performance Assessment of Geosynthetic Reinforced Quay Walls under Concurrent Tsunami and Earthquake Aftershocks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractCoastal structures are built against the dynamic loadings from waves, tides, and storms. However, natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis can impart additional loadings on these structures that might ... -
Neural Network–Based Ground Motion Model for Central and Western Himalayas in India Using a Seismological Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThe Himalayan region, formed by the collision of the stable Eurasian plate with the northward-moving Indian plate, is one of the most tectonically active areas in the world. This complex tectonic environment leads ... -
Optimal Simulation for Refuge Space in Earthquake-Prone Areas Orienting Population Structure Change
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractEvacuation simulations in disaster-prone areas have been extensively studied and applied in regional disaster protection, emergency evacuation, and urban and rural planning and management. By simulating the evacuation ... -
Demystifying Community Vulnerability to Monsoon Flooding via Tweets: Evidence from Peninsular Malaysia
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractFlooding poses a significant challenge, disrupting daily routines and harming individuals globally. Amidst disaster events, social media platforms have evolved into formidable instruments for disseminating information ... -
Fragility Curves for Highway Embankment Slope Stability under Extreme Rainfall
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractHighway embankment slopes are subject to potential failure due to extreme rainfall patterns. This study uses a fragility framework to examine the failure probability of a highway slope consisting of Yazoo clay in ... -
Examining Rural–Urban Vulnerability Inequality in Extreme Weather-Related Power Outages: Case of Tropical Storm Isaias
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractGiven the unequal impact of severe weather-related power outages on people and the built environment, assessing vulnerability to natural hazards becomes central to hazard risk reduction. This paper presents an ... -
Analysis of the Influence of the Stiffness Ratio of Rocking Walls on the Fragility of Step-Terrace Frame–Energy-Dissipation Rocking Wall Structures in Mountain Cities
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractA rocking wall controls the overall deformation mode of a structure and the distribution of plastic energy dissipation, and prevents failure caused by weak stories. A step-terrace frame structure has serious problems ... -
StormShare: A Crowdsourcing Web Application to Enhance Resiliency during Hurricanes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractIn advance of an approaching hurricane, residents must prepare and make decisions. Families might need windows boarded up before the storm and fallen trees removed afterward. Those sheltering in place may need ... -
Refined Adaptive Regional Input–Output Model: Application to the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThe Adaptive Regional Input–Output (ARIO) model is popular for quantifying indirect economic losses, which stem from business and supply chain interruption. However, refining this model to study new contexts is ... -
Voice for the Voiceless: Amplifying Animal Issues in Disaster Management and Media
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractHow do the media portray companion animals, commonly known as pets, and their guardians during natural disasters? This study explores the crucial role media has played in shaping the public’s understanding of ... -
Postearthquake Damage Classification of Buildings Using a Recording of Low-Cost IoT Devices
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractPeople live in a temporary shelter after an earthquake due to the unknown severity of the damage level of buildings. Recently, machine-learning-based rapid building damage classification after the earthquake has ... -
Dynamic Optimization for Emergency Supplies Distribution with Priority of Postdisaster Shelters
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractEvery year, disasters such as earthquake, flood, and typhoon cause millions of victims. Delivering emergency supplies (including food and medicine, etc.) to shelters in time is critical to ensure that victims receive ... -
Mining and Analyzing the Evolution of Public Opinion in Extreme Disaster Events from Social Media: A Case Study of the 2022 Yingde Flood in China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractNatural disasters have caused significant economic losses and casualties. Obtaining detailed disaster information and understanding public opinion during disasters are crucial for devising effective policies and ... -
Only Who Can Prevent Forest Fires? Causes of a Subset of Wildfires in California, 2010–2021
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractWildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity across much of the world, including in the western United States. Developing effective, research-informed strategies to prevent and mitigate wildfires requires a ... -
Automatic Density-Based Clustering for Operational Modal Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Estimation of modal parameters from ambient response measurements is a central task in structural health monitoring and rapid condition assessment of structures after natural disasters or other damaging events. This task ... -
Computer Vision-Enabled Roof Subassembly Damage Detection from Hurricanes Using Aerial Reconnaissance Imagery
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Coastal communities are increasingly vulnerable to devastating losses caused by extreme climatological events such as hurricanes. As risk escalates, an urgent need arises to accelerate learning from these disasters. ... -
Rapid Detection of Landslides for the Timely Response of Disaster Mitigation and Relief
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Landslides on the Tibetan Plateau can induce disaster chains, which can extend the damage from one point to an area. At present, the timely treatment of landslides after they have occurred is the only feasible way to avoid ... -
Prepositioning and Multiperiod Distribution of Relief Supplies in Humanitarian Logistics: A Case Study on Earthquakes in Ya’an, China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Large-scale natural disasters result in significant human casualties and economic losses. Effective disaster management necessitates the strategic prepositioning of relief supplies before disasters and their swift distribution ...