Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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Mediating Design Claims: The Social Media and Housing Disaster of the 2017 Halabja Earthquake
(ASCE, 2020)In disasters, social media offers a platform for sharing vital information between affected communities, responders, journalists, designers, planners, and policy makers. In some cases, however, social media seeds contentious ... -
Warning Message Elements and Retweet Counts: An Analysis of Tweets Sent during Hurricane Irma
(ASCE, 2020)This article presents an analysis of the risk warning messages sent via Twitter during Hurricane Irma, which struck Key West, Florida and the Florida mainland on September 10, 2017. The study analyzed 497 tweets sent by ... -
A GIS-Based Model for Integrating Risk Estimations of Residential Building Damage and Shelter Capacity in the Case of Earthquakes
(ASCE, 2020)This research aims at developing a geographic information system (GIS)–based model for integrating risk estimation for residential building damage with risk estimation for shelter capacity by number of evacuees. The former ... -
Computational Framework to Support Government Policy-Making for Hurricane Risk Management
(ASCE, 2020)This paper introduces a computational framework that can be used to identify hurricane risk management solutions based on the operation of the system as a whole. The framework represents interactions among multiple types ... -
Benefit-Cost Analysis for Earthquake Early Warning in Washington State
(ASCE, 2020)This benefit-cost analysis (BCA) assesses the economic value of the implementation and operation of an earthquake early warning system (EEWS) over a 50-year period in the state of Washington. Based on a cost avoidance ... -
Concluding the 2017 Hurricane Season: Evaluation of Impact Level Forecasts with Varied Meteorological Hazards
(ASCE, 2020)The 2017 hurricane season was a costly multi-billion-dollar season for the United States. Communicating the real-time risk of these events to the public is usually performed through explanations from meteorologists via ... -
If Mitigation Saves $6 Per Every $1 Spent, Then Why Are We Not Investing More? A Louisiana Perspective on a National Issue
(ASCE, 2020)This paper provides an accounting of where and when mitigation and recovery investments have occurred in Louisiana, thereby generating a mitigation investment portfolio for the state. An exploratory data analysis of FEMA ... -
Predicting Postdisaster Residential Housing Reconstruction Based on Market Resources
(ASCE, 2020)Multiple billion-dollar disaster events occurred throughout 2017, illustrating the increasing vulnerability of the US residential housing stock to widespread damages associated with disasters. Although the US construction ... -
CRISIS: Modeling the Restoration of Interdependent Civil and Social Infrastructure Systems Following an Extreme Event
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Civil infrastructure systems (transportation, power, communications, water, and sewer services) are crucial for the operation and wellbeing of a community during normal circumstances certainly, but especially so during and ... -
Proactive Seismic Rehabilitation Decision-Making for Water Pipe Networks Using Simulated Annealing
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Past earthquakes have demonstrated that water pipes are susceptible to leaks and breaks during earthquakes. These leaks and breaks cause disruptions in water distribution and cause various direct and indirect losses. Such ... -
Alerts and Warnings on Short Messaging Channels: Guidance from an Expert Panel Process
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Information is of utmost importance to the public during disasters, especially for those under imminent threat. Without information, and more specifically, without the right information, people are often left to fill in ... -
Understanding US Housing Data in Relation to the 2017 Disasters
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Housing is a first line of defense, literally and figuratively. It is also a critical, although too-often overlooked, component of a community’s physical infrastructure. Variations in housing quality before a disaster ... -
Network Structure and Substantive Dimensions of Improvised Social Support Ties Surrounding Households during Post-Disaster Recovery
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Informal social support plays a crucial role in post-disaster recovery, but are there systematic patterns of inequality in individuals’ mobilization of social support? This study examines the predictors of both the network ... -
Roadblocks to Housing after Disaster: Homeless Veterans’ Experiences after Hurricane Sandy
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Individuals who are homeless are disproportionately likely to experience negative outcomes during disasters. Setbacks to their efforts to access needed services, such as transitional housing and case management to help ... -
Flood-Risk Zoning Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process and Fuzzy Variable Set Theory
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)This study investigated torrential rain and waterlogging disasters in Henan Province combining the analytic hierarchy process method with the theory of fuzzy variable sets, and applying ArcGIS technology. The study focused ... -
CRISIS: Modeling the Restoration of Interdependent Civil and Social Infrastructure Systems Following an Extreme Event
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Civil infrastructure systems (transportation, power, communications, water, and sewer services) are crucial for the operation and wellbeing of a community during normal circumstances certainly, but especially so during and ... -
Proactive Seismic Rehabilitation Decision-Making for Water Pipe Networks Using Simulated Annealing
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Past earthquakes have demonstrated that water pipes are susceptible to leaks and breaks during earthquakes. These leaks and breaks cause disruptions in water distribution and cause various direct and indirect losses. Such ... -
Alerts and Warnings on Short Messaging Channels: Guidance from an Expert Panel Process
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Information is of utmost importance to the public during disasters, especially for those under imminent threat. Without information, and more specifically, without the right information, people are often left to fill in ... -
Numerical Simulation of Soil Levee Slope Instability Using Particle-Flow Code Method
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)A mesoscale simulation approach and its corresponding safety criteria are presented to investigate the soil levee instability and its safety criteria. By introducing the particle-flow code (PFC), the numerical simulation ... -
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in the Aftermath of Hurricane Irma: Exploring Whether Community-Level Mitigation Activities Make a Difference
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Scholars have argued that businesses benefit from communities adopting mitigation measures. However, no study has considered the extent to which community-level mitigation activities impact business continuity and disaster ...