Field survey report and satellite image interpretation of the 2013 Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines
Three weeks after the deadly Bohol earthquake of magnitude Mw 7.2, which claimed at least 222 victims; another disaster struck the Philippines. This time, Super Typhoon Haiyan, als...
Field survey report and satellite image interpretation of the 2013 Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines
Three weeks after the deadly Bohol earthquake of magnitude Mw 7.2, which claimed at least 222 victims; another disaster struck the Philippines. This time, Super Typhoon Haiyan, als...
Potential Impacts of the Brunei Slide Tsunami over East Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam
A giant submarine landslide known as the Brunei Slide was recently discovered in the North West Borneo Trough. This discovery suggests the potential of a landslide-generated tsunam...
Studying Displacement After a Disaster Using Large-Scale Survey Methods: Sumatra After the 2004 Tsunami
Understanding of human vulnerability to environmental change has advanced in recent years, but measuring vulnerability and interpreting mobility across many sites differentially af...
Active tectonics and earthquake potential of the Myanmar region
This paper describes geomorphologic evidence for the principal neotectonic features of Myanmar and its immediate surroundings. We combine this evidence with published structural, g...
Satellites Track Precipitation of Super Typhoon Haiyan
Typhoon Haiyan, which struck Southeast Asia in November 2013, might be the strongest storm on record, with a 10-minute sustained wind speed of 230 kilometers per hour. In the Phili...
Remarkable ground uplift and reverse fault ruptures for the 2013 Bohol earthquake (Mw 7.1), Philippines, revealed by SAR pixel offset analysis
By applying a pixel offset analysis using RADARSAT-2 SAR data to an inland crustal earthquake that occurred on Bohol Island, Philippines on 15 October 2013, we succeeded in mapping...
Earthquake frequency-magnitude distribution and fractal dimension in mainland Southeast Asia
The 2004 Sumatra and 2011 Tohoku earthquakes highlighted the need for a more accurate understanding of earthquake characteristics in both regions. In this study, both the a and b v...
POST-FLOOD EARLY RECOVERY NEED ASSESSMENT REPORT
Cambodia is considered one of the most hazard-prone countries in South-East Asia. The major disasters faced by the country are, in order of prevalence, floods, droughts, typhoons, ...
Evidence of increasing drought severity caused by temperature rise in southern Europe
We use high quality climate data from ground meteorological stations in the Iberian Peninsula (IP) and robust drought indices to con?rm that drought severity has increased in the p...
Coupling eruption and tsunami records: the Krakatau 1883 case study, Indonesia
The well-documented 1883 eruption of Krakatau volcano (Indonesia) offers an opportunity to couple the eruption’s history with the tsunami record. The aim of this paper is not to ...
Typhoon Haiyan and the Professionalization of Disaster Response
When international medical response teams landed in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan, they had to act as professional humanitarian responders. Medical responders to disasters c...
Real-time global flood estimation using satellite-based precipitation and a coupled land surface and routing model
A widely used land surface model, the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model, is coupled with a newly developed hierarchical dominant river tracing-based runoff-routing model t...
Night-time lights time series of tsunami damage, recovery, and economic metrics in Sumatra, Indonesia
On 26 December 2004, a magnitude 9.2 earthquake off the west coast of the northern Sumatra, Indonesia, resulted in 160,000 Indonesians killed. We examine the Defense Meteorological...