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The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was one of the most devastating tsunamis in world history. The tsunami caused damage to most of the Asian and other coun...

Coupling eruption and tsunami records: the Krakatau 1883 case study, Indonesia

Paris, R.Wassmer, P.Lavigne, F.Belousov, A.Belousova, M.Iskandarsyah, Y.Mazzoni, N.
The well-documented 1883 eruption of Krakatau volcano (Indonesia) offers an opportunity to couple the eruption’s history with the tsunami record. Th...
The ASEAN Disaster Recovery Reference Guide (the Guide) aims to help the ASEAN Member States prepare for recovery; and deliver timely, efficient and e...

Tsunamis in the Pacific Ocean: 2011-2012

Rabinovich, A. B.Borrero, J. C.Fritz, H. M.
The 2011 Tohoku earthquake generated a catastrophic tsunami that killed nearly 20,000 people along the coast of Japan and caused the nuclear disaster ...

Landslide Hazard and Risk

Glade, T.Anderson, M. G.Crozier, M. J.
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After landslide victories in elections in 2008, the ruling Kuomintang(Nationalist Party) under Ma Ying-jeou promoted closer economic thies with the bo...
We have developed a near-field tsunami forecast system based on an automatic centroid moment tensor (CMT) estimation using regional broadband seismic ...

Flood damage assessment in the Pampanga river basin of the Philippines

Shrestha, B. B.Okazumi, T.Miyamoto, M.Sawano, H.
In this study, a flood damage assessment method was proposed for the assessment of flood risk in data-poor river basins by using a physical-based nume...
Indonesia is amongst the countries with the highest disaster risk globally. This risk is driven by the country’s high exposure to a range of geophys...
The Philippine government learned from shortcomings in the preparations for Typhoon Haiyan in 2013 (see R. Lejano et al. Nature 518, 35; 2015, and A. ...
The western Acehnese coastline in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, receded on average 110 m due to subsidence and tsunami inundation in the course of the ...
Numerical models for simulating volcanic debris avalanches commonly lack a critical initiation parameter, the source volume, which is difficult to est...
Super typhoon Haiyan, considered as one of the most powerful storms recorded in 2013, devastated the central Philippines region on 8 November 2013 wit...
I assess the population health effects in Malaysia of air pollution from a widespread series of fires that occurred in Indonesia between April and Nov...
has been estimated that droughts are the world’s costliest natural disasters and affect more people than any other form of natural disaster (Wilhite...