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A disaster early warning system is an important tool to prevent a large number of human casualties from natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsun...
The 2004 Sumatra and 2011 Tohoku earthquakes highlighted the need for a more accurate understanding of earthquake characteristics in both regions. In ...
This paper uses recent examples of natural disasters from Southeast Asia to illustrate some important arguments discussed in the literature on natural...
The satellite differential interferometric synthetic aperture radar (DInSAR) technology has been widely applied for mapping the ground deformation ass...

Typhoon Impact and Crisis Management

Dan Ling TangGuangjun Sui
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This paper describes geomorphologic evidence for the principal neotectonic features of Myanmar and its immediate surroundings. We combine this evidenc...
Coastal Disasters and Climate Change in Vietnam is the first book to focus specifically on natural hazards and climate change in Vietnam. The book exa...
The temporal and spatial variations of the velocity structure 60 days before and after the March 24, 2011 Myanmar M7.2 earthquake in the Yunnan regio...
It is a challenging task for working hydrologists of Myanmar to get information from all gauge and discharge sites during a flood to model the forecas...
In this study, the method of Fault Movement Potential (FMP) proposed by Lee et al. (1997) is used to assess the movement potential of some major fault...
The urban development of Banda Aceh, Indonesia was very rapid after the tsunami in 2004, posing critical challenges in planning for its future sustain...
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 kil...
In coastal cities, population and property are concentrated in small areas, with abundant resources and convenient transportation, but also with poten...

Assessing tsunami hazard using heterogeneous slip models in the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia

Griffin, J. D.Pranantyo, I. R.Kongko, W.Haunan, A.Robiana, R.Miller, V.Natawidjaja, D. H.
Tsunami hazard maps are generated for the coastline of the Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, Indonesia, to support evacuation and disaster response plan...
The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the 2011 Great East Japan tsunami left several lessons for future events. Both tsunami events confirmed the importan...
On November 8 the vast majority of Myanmar's citizens participated in what official observers – international and domestic – widely hailed as the ...

Permanent upper plate deformation in western Myanmar during the great 1762 earthquake: Implications for neotectonic behavior of the northern Sunda megathrust

Yu Wangj. Bruce H. ShyuKerry SiehHong-Wei ChiangChung-Che WangThura AungYu-nung Nina LinChuan-Chou ShenSoe MinOo ThanKyaw Kyaw LinSoe Thura Tun
The 1762 Arakan earthquake resulted from rupture of the northern Sunda megathrust and is one of those rare preinstrumental earthquakes for which early...
It has been more than 10 years since Malaysia ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and developments since then ...