Publications List
Landslides and related slope instability phenomena plague many parts of the world. A wealth of experience has been accumulated in recent years in unde...
Theory1 and modelling2 predict that hurricane intensity should increase with increasing global mean temperatures, but work on the detection of trends ...
Earthquake Activities Along the Strike-Slip Fault System on the Thailand-Myanmar Border
Pailoplee, S.
This study investigates the present-day seismicity along the strike-slip fault system on the Thailand-Myanmar border. Using the earthquake catalogue t...
Flooding is the most severe hazard in Malaysia, a country experiencing a wet equatorial climate with heavy seasonal monsoon rains. In the past, nature...
Catastrophic Landslide Induced by Typhoon Morakot, Shiaolin, Taiwan
Ching-Ying TsouZheng-Yi FengMasahiro Chigira
Typhoon Morakot induced the catastrophic and deadly Shiaolin landslide in southern Taiwan on 9 August 2009, resulting in more than 400 casualties. We ...
Seismic reconnaissance and observed damage after the Mw 6.8, 24 August 2016 Chauk (Central Myanmar) earthquake
Zaw, S. H.T. OrnthammarathN. Poovarodom
On 24 August 2016 Mw 6.8 earthquake occurred near Chauk, Central Myanmar. This earthquake caused a significant amount of damage over a very large numb...
how an oral history saved thousands on Indonesia's Simeulue Island
McAdoo BGDengler LTitov VPrasetya G.Smong
The tsunamis on 26 December 2004 and 28 March 2005 killed only 7 people on Simeulue Island in Indonesia’s Aceh province. At Langi, on the north end ...
Using a process-based model of pre-eruptive seismic patterns to forecast evolving eruptive styles at Sinabung Volcano, Indonesia
McCausland, W. A.Gunawan, H.White, R. A.Indrastuti, N.Patria, C.Suparman, Y.Hendrasto, M.
Most volcanoes worldwide are not monitored in real-time; for those that are, patterns of pre-eruptive earthquakes coupled with conceptual models of ma...
Children as Agents of Change for Disaster Risk Reduction: Lessons from El Salvador and the Philippines
Tom MitchellThomas TannerKatharine Haynes
Disaster management has been dominated by top-down relief efforts targeted at adults, who are assumed to be attuned to the needs of their families and...
Earthquake Activities in the Thailand-Laos-Myanmar Border Region: A Statistical Approach
Pailoplee, S.P. ChannarongV. Chutakositkanon.
A large number of earthquakes have been recorded by instrument in the past along the Thailand-Laos-Myanmar border region. However, the locations of mo...
Surface Ruptures of the Mw 6.8 March 2011 Tarlay Earthquake, Eastern Myanmar
Soe Thura TunYu WangSaw Ngwe KhaingMyo ThantNyunt HtayYin Myo Min HtweThan MyintKerry Sieh
Field observations indicate the Mw 6.8 Tarlay, Myanmar, earthquake of 24 March 2011 resulted from the rupture of a short section of the left-lateral ...
The Grid Search Algorithm of Tectonic Stress Tensor Based on Focal Mechanism Data and Its Application in the Boundary Zone of China, Vietnam and Laos
Wan, Y.S. ShengJ. HuangX. LiX. Chen.
Stress field plays a key role in geodynamics. In this study, an algorithm to determine the stress tensor and its confidence range from focal mechanism...
The 17 February 2006 Rock Slide-Debris Avalanche at Guinsaugon Philippines: A Synthesis
Guthrie, Richard H.Stephen G. EvansSandra G. CataneMark AH ZarcoRicarido M. Saturay
The paper presents a synthesis of the key findings of the conference and workshop convened to consider the causes of and lessons to be learned from th...
Landslide-Amplified Flash Floods—the June 2008 Panay Island Flooding, Philippines
Catane, Sandra G.Catherine C. AbonRicarido M. SaturayEdna Patricia P. MendozaKrestabelle M. Futalan
The role of landslides in generating or enhancing a flash flood event in Aklan, Panay Island, Philippines, resulting from Typhoon Fengshen, was invest...
Cambodia is among the countries most vulnerable to climate change. Floods, droughts and extreme vents exacerbated by climate change are already affect...
In this paper, the history of tropical cyclone modeling will be reviewed, with an emphasis on the Atlantic basin. According to Cressman (1996), routin...
The recent destructive Atlantic hurricane seasons and several recent publications have sparked debate over whether warming tropical sea surface temper...
Events such as wildfires, occurring on a tiny area of the globe, can have a huge impact on the global carbon cycle. This much is plain from investigat...
It has been more than 10 years since Malaysia ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and developments since then ...
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