Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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Defining Sufficient Household Preparedness for Active Wildfire Defense: Toward an Australian Baseline
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This study begins to offer a tangible definition and operationalization of the required level of preparedness for safely staying and defending a property by householders in Australian wildfires. A consultative workshop was ... -
Disaster Preparedness in Homeless Residential Organizations in Los Angeles County: Identifying Needs, Assessing Gaps
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Community-based organizations (CBOs) are essential to supporting homeless populations during disasters, yet little is known about their preparedness and ability to support their vulnerable clients. This qualitative study ... -
Seismic Risk–Based Stochastic Optimal Control of Structures Using Magnetorheological Dampers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Magnetorheological (MR) dampers are regarded as among the most promising control devices owing to their perfect dynamic damping behaviors. The operating efficiency of MR dampers, however, upon randomly excited structural ... -
Flood Disaster and Flood Control Measurements in Shanghai
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Shanghai is the economic center of China, but is vulnerable to threats from natural hazards. Along with climate change and fast urbanization, flood is the inevitable deterrent to the city’s development. Flood hazard ... -
Likely Scenarios of Natural Terrain Shallow Slope Failures on Hong Kong Island under Extreme Storms
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)In Hong Kong, rain-induced shallow slope failures are recognized as one of the most catastrophic hazards due to Hong Kong’s hilly terrain and frequent heavy storms. Due to climate changes, extreme storms are expected to ... -
Component-Based Vulnerability Analysis for Residential Structures Subjected to Storm Surge Impact from Hurricane Sandy
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)In this study, manual and light detection and ranging (LiDAR) surveys of physical damage to structures in Ortley Beach, New Jersey, following Hurricane Sandy are used to assess the vulnerability of residential structures ... -
Measuring Transportation System Resilience: Response of Rail Transit to Weather Disruptions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Major disruptions of transportation systems due to severe weather events such as hurricanes, storm surges, and flooding are becoming more common. A logical response is to make those systems better able to withstand and ... -
Best-Estimate Return Period of the Sanchiao Earthquake in Taipei: Bayesian Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)It is believed that the Sanchiao fault in Taipei, the most important city in Taiwan, has caused several major earthquakes. In the literature, one study suggested return periods of the Sanchiao earthquake of 543, 568, and ... -
Agent-Based Simulation of Building Evacuation after an Earthquake: Coupling Human Behavior with Structural Response
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The safety of building occupants during and immediately after disasters, such as a major earthquake, is highly dependent on the way in which people interact with the damaged physical environment. While there are extensive ... -
Projection of Significant Wave Height in a Coastal Area under RCPs Climate Change Scenarios
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This article provides multimodel and multiscenario projections of significant wave height for the Qatar coast. Significant wave height is used for practical purposes such as offshore and coastal structure design as well ... -
Measuring Community Resilience to Coastal Hazards along the Northern Gulf of Mexico
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The abundant research examining aspects of social-ecological resilience, vulnerability, and hazards and risk assessment has yielded insights into these concepts and suggested the importance of quantifying them. Quantifying ... -
Vulnerability of Floodways under Extreme Flood Events
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Floodways are commonly used in rural road networks due to the economic and environmental benefits offered as a low-cost and practical road crossing in flood-prone areas. They are designed with provision for submergence so ... -
Lulling Effect of Public Flood Protection: Case of Benhe Community in Kaohsiung during Typhoon Fanapi
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Many people believe that once structural public flood protection is completed, disasters are completely prevented. Benhe community was the only place in Taiwan where a flood detention pond had been built in 2005. After ... -
Lessons Learned from Businesses to Ensure Community Level Recovery in a Postdisaster Period: Case from Adapazari, Turkey
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This study argues that businesses, as principal units of both the economy and the urban environment, show different performances in the postdisaster period that in turn affect the community-level recovery. To this end, the ... -
Modeling the Relationship between Natural Disasters and Crime in the United States
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This research explores the relationship between disaster and crime in the continental United States to investigate the question of whether disasters of different magnitudes differentially affect crime rates. Three sociological ... -
Anticipating Environmental and Environmental-Health Implications of Extreme Storms: ARkStorm Scenario
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The ARkStorm Scenario predicts that a prolonged winter storm event across California would cause extreme precipitation, flooding, winds, physical damages, and economic impacts. This study uses a literature review and ... -
Robust Investments in Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chains for Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Communities
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Effective disaster preparedness and response are supported by heterogeneous investments in logistics for emergency management. Meanwhile, there may be scarce resources or misconception of humanitarian needs for emergency ... -
New Method for Estimating Landslide Losses from Major Winter Storms in California and Application to the ARkStorm Scenario
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)ARkStorm is a statewide emergency planning scenario hypothesizing severe atmospheric river storms that transport huge amounts of moisture from the tropical Pacific to California, where it falls as intense rain. The storm ... -
Agricultural Damages and Losses from ARkStorm Scenario Flooding in California
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Scientists designed the ARkStorm scenario to challenge the preparedness of California communities for widespread flooding with a historical precedence and increased likelihood under climate change. California is an important ... -
Empirically Based Probabilistic Tornado Hazard Analysis of the United States Using 1973–2011 Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)