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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...
Rainfall-induced slope failure is a common geotechnical problem in the tropics where residual soils are abundant. Although the significance of rainwat...

Effects of a Crude Oil Terminal on Tropical Benthic Communities in Brunei

Seng, L. T.Kwong, L. Y.Chye, H. S.Huat, K. K.Pheng, K. S.Hanapi, S.Meng, W. T.Legore, R. S.Ligny, W. D.Tan, G. T.
An environmental survey was carried out in May 1981 at the intertidal and subtidal zone of Sungai (River) Bera, where Brunei Shell Petroleum Company d...
This study assesses the tsunami hazard potential in Padang, Indonesia probabilistically using a novel stochastic tsunami simulation method. The stocha...
Marine inundation associated with the 5 to 8 m storm surge of Typhoon Haiyan in 2013 left overwash sediments inland on the coastal plains of the nort...

Identification of storm surge vulnerable areas in the Philippines through the simulation of Typhoon Haiyan-induced storm surge levels over historical storm tracks

J. P. LapidezJ. TablazonL. DasallasL. A. GonzaloK. M. CabacabaM. M. A. RamosJ. K. SuarezJ. SantiagoA. M. F. LagmayV. Malano
Super Typhoon Haiyan entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) on 7 November 2013, causing tremendous damage to infrastructure and loss of l...
It has been more than 10 years since Malaysia ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and developments since then ...