Natural Hazards Review: Recent submissions
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HAZUS—Its Development and Its Future
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006)HAZUS development began in the early 1990s and continues to this day as the second maintenance release of HAZUS-MH nears completion. This paper discusses the history of HAZUS development and plans for the future. HAZUS was ... -
HAZUS Earthquake Loss Estimation Methods
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006)This paper provides background and historical perspective on the development of the earthquake loss estimation methods of the HAZUS technology (referred to as HAZUS Earthquake), describes the various modules of HAZUS ... -
Catastrophe-Induced Destruction and Reconstruction1
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006)This study examines the destruction caused by the May 3, 1999 Oklahoma City tornado and the rebuilding process using panel data techniques. The results indicate that, within -
Loss Estimation Analysis of Flat-Slab Structures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006)The paper is concerned with loss estimation analysis of flat-slab structures, a reinforced concrete structural form that exhibits behavior and response patterns distinct from conventional moment frames. The fragility ... -
HAZUS-MH Flood Loss Estimation Methodology. I: Overview and Flood Hazard Characterization
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006)Part I of this two-part paper provides an overview of the HAZUS-MH Flood Model and a discussion of its capabilities for characterizing riverine and coastal flooding hazard. Included is a discussion of the Flood Information ... -
Holistic Approach for Assessing the Vulnerability of Buried Pipelines to Earthquake Loads
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006)Emergency preparedness agencies are promoting community resiliency in the face of disasters through community involvement and planning. One aspect of such programs is the incorporation of disaster planning into the community ... -
Review of Policies and Practices for Hurricane Evacuation. II: Traffic Operations, Management, and Control
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)This paper is the second in a two-part series reviewing highway transportation aspects of hurricane evacuations. While the first focused on transportation-related policies and practices for evacuation planning, preparedness, ... -
Review of Policies and Practices for Hurricane Evacuation. I: Transportation Planning, Preparedness, and Response
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)Although evacuation planning and operations have long been topics of critical significance to the hazards preparedness and response community, only in the past several years have they emerged to become important issues ... -
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Empirical Examination of the Corpus Christi Unemployment Rate and Hurricane Bret
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)A time series econometric model of the Corpus Christi unemployment rate is estimated that includes an intervention variable to capture the impact and recovery activity associated with hurricane Bret in August 1999. The ... -
Comparative Assessment of Impacts and Recovery from Hurricane Floyd among Student and Community Households1
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)This research capitalizes on a unique opportunity to undertake a comparative assessment of the social and economic impacts of Floyd-related flooding on two distinct populations in one of the region’s most severely affected ... -
Wind Load Testing of Low Buildings to Failure at Model and Full Scale
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)Testing of buildings and their components to failure under realistic wind loading is difficult under controlled conditions and presents a significant limitation in optimizing building performance. On one hand, the temporal ... -
Cognitive Aging and the Processing of Hazard Information and Disaster Warnings
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)Older adults, aged -
Household Decision Making and Evacuation in Response to Hurricane Lili
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)This study collected data on the evacuation from Hurricane Lili to answer questions about households’ reliance on information sources, the factors affecting their decisions to evacuate, the timing of their hurricane ... -
Site-Specific Snow Load Models and Hazard Curves for Probabilistic Design
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)This paper describes a study to develop site-specific probabilistic snow load models for use in reliability analyses of structures in the United States. Annual maximum snow water-equivalent depth data measured at 93 ... -
Public Safety in the Urban–Wildland Interface: Should Fire-Prone Communities Have a Maximum Occupancy?
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)Residential development in fire-prone wildlands is a growing problem for land-use and emergency planners. In many areas housing is increasing without commensurate improvement in the primary road network. This compromises ... -
Distinguishing Tropical Cyclone-Related Flooding in U.S. Presidential Disaster Declarations: 1965–1997
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)A problem exists in that the classifications used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for weather-related disasters do not always allow analysts to clearly link declared disasters to their ultimate meteorological ... -
Protection from Nature’s Fury: Analysis of Fatalities and Injuries from F5 Tornadoes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)Improved technology and warnings seem to have reduced tornado casualties over time. We subject this conventional wisdom to empirical scrutiny by examining the determinants over time of casualties from the strongest (F5) ... -
Modeling Changes in Hurricane Risk over Time
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)This paper presents a new methodology for estimating changes in hurricane risk (annual expected economic losses) over time. A case study illustrates application of the methodology in Dare and New Hanover counties in North ... -
Estimating Forecast Lead Time
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005)Flood warning systems (FWS), if properly designed and operated, reduce flood damages and save lives. For federally funded projects, the economic benefit of the FWS must be computed. That benefit must be greater than the ...