Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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Comparative Analysis of Triggers for Evacuation during Recent Tsunami Events
(ASCE, 2020)In the case of a near-field tsunami event, coastal residents must quickly become aware of the potential danger of a tsunami taking place and start taking actions to evacuate. The present paper aims to show which types of ... -
Diagnosis and Quantification of Postdisaster Construction Material Cost Fluctuations
(ASCE, 2020)The postdisaster survival of communities and cities largely depends on their capabilities to rapidly reconstruct damages. Temporary increases in construction costs following natural hazards, also known as demand surge, ... -
Floodplain Buyouts and Municipal Finance
(ASCE, 2020)Floodplain buyouts—the acquisition and removal of flood-damaged homes—have become increasingly important in federal disaster policy. However, there has been little research on how buyouts fiscally impact local governments. ... -
Tornado-Level Estimates of Socioeconomic and Demographic Variables
(ASCE, 2020)Tornadoes create a threat to human life. Knowing the conditions that make people vulnerable to this threat is vitally important. Yet, socioeconomic and demographic data are not consistently available at the tornado level, ... -
Perceived Stakeholder Information Credibility and Hazard Adjustments: A Case of Induced Seismic Activities in Oklahoma
(ASCE, 2020)Oklahoma residents have experienced an increase in moderate-scale earthquakes (magnitude 3–5) regularly since 2011. Recently, several scientific reports showed that seismic activities are likely associated with oil companies’ ... -
Metanetwork Framework for Analysis of Actor-Plan-Task-Infrastructure Networks in Resilience Planning and Management
(ASCE, 2020)This paper proposes a metanetwork framework for modeling dependent Actor-Plan-Task-Infrastructure networks. The proposed framework is able to quantitatively evaluate the extent to which coordination among actors and ... -
Evaluating the Quality and Implementation of Hazard Mitigation Plans in Coastal Washington State
(ASCE, 2020)Local-level hazard mitigation plans, particularly in coastal areas, are critical to protecting communities from natural hazards, some of which are expected to increase with climate change. However, questions remain with ... -
Fiscal Repercussions of Natural Disasters: Stylized Facts and Panel Data Evidences from India
(ASCE, 2020)Natural disasters may create serious fiscal problems, especially for the developing world by causing disruption in economic activities, destroying tax bases, and increasing the financial burden of postdisaster response, ... -
Characterizing Construction Demand Surge Using Spatial Panel Data Models
(ASCE, 2020)The socioeconomic losses in the aftermath of large-scale natural disasters have increased dramatically over the last few decades. The postdisaster survival of cities and communities depend on their capabilities to reconstruct ... -
Effect of Climate Change on Precipitation Patterns in an Arid Region Using GCM Models: Case Study of Isfahan-Borkhar Plain
(ASCE, 2020)Climate change has major implications for a wide range of natural processes and phenomena, with precipitation patterns particularly sensitive to changes in atmospheric forcing. The arid and semiarid regions of the world, ... -
From Disaster Risk Reduction to Policy Studies: Bridging Research Communities
(ASCE, 2020)Major conceptual and empirical advances over the past three decades have clarified how natural hazard events interact with community and human exposures and vulnerabilities to create risks that then become emergencies, ... -
Wind Risk Assessment of Electric Power Lines due to Hurricane Hazard
(ASCE, 2020)This paper proposes a methodology to assess the wind risk of electrical transmission towers considering the coupling of the tower with the cables and a failure mechanism based on capacity. In the proposed methodology, the ... -
Numerical Modeling of Overtopping-Induced Breach of Landslide Dams
(ASCE, 2020)Landslide dams have a high risk of overtopping failure compared to that of artificial dams. In this study, based on dam morphological characteristics, field investigations, and model tests, a numerical calculation method ... -
Development of Building Restoration Functions for Use in Community Recovery Planning to Tornadoes
(ASCE, 2020)Postdisaster community scale recovery and resilience assessments have gained interest in the United States and around the world following natural and human-made disasters. Tornadoes are one of the most devastating natural ... -
Uncertainty Quantification in Fault Tree Analysis: Estimating Business Interruption due to Seismic Hazard
(ASCE, 2020)This paper presents an approach based on fault tree analysis and subset simulation for quantifying uncertainty in the risk assessment of complex industrial facilities. Downtime estimation of industrial facilities after an ... -
State-by-State Analysis of Benefits to Cost from Wind-Enhanced Building Codes
(ASCE, 2020)In 2002, Florida enacted the first statewide building code based on wind engineering principles. After a tragic tornado in 2013, which killed 24, including seven school children, Moore, Oklahoma, followed suit. We use ... -
Worldwide Predictions of Earthquake Casualty Rates with Seismic Intensity Measure and Socioeconomic Data: A Fragility-Based Formulation
(ASCE, 2020)This paper presents a fragility-based Bayesian formulation to predict earthquake casualty rates for countries worldwide. The earthquake casualty rate of a community is defined as the probability that a person in the community ... -
Accessibility and Recovery Assessment of Houston’s Roadway Network due to Fluvial Flooding during Hurricane Harvey
(ASCE, 2020)The record-breaking rainfall produced by Hurricane Harvey resulted in catastrophic and prolonged impacts on Houston’s transportation infrastructure, inundating entire neighborhoods and rendering them inaccessible to emergency ... -
Bridging Twitter and Survey Data for Evacuation Assessment of Hurricane Matthew and Hurricane Irma
(ASCE, 2020)Evacuations are the most effective protective strategy adopted to minimize the deadly threat of an incoming hurricane. The study of evacuations has a long history in the United States, and the scientific community has ... -
People’s Participation in Disaster-Risk Reduction: Recentering Power
(ASCE, 2020)People’s participation is widely acknowledged as a necessary component of effective, efficient, and inclusive disaster-risk reduction. However, there is little reflection on how commitments for participation in disaster ...