On July 11, 1995, an Mw 6.8 earthquake struck eastern Myanmar near the Chinese border; hereafter referred to as the 1995 Myanmar–China earthquake. C...
Xiong, X.B. ShanY. M. ZhouS. J. WeiY. D. LiR. J. WangY. Zheng
Myanmar is drawing rapidly increasing attention from the world for its seismic hazard. The Sagaing Fault (SF), an active right-lateral strike-slip fau...
Wen, S.Y.-L. YehC.-C. TangL. H. PhongD. V. ToanW.-Y. ChangC.-H. Chen
Indochina area is a tectonic active region where creates complex topographies and tectonic structures. In particular, the Song Ma fault zone plays an ...
Hidayati, S.Ratdomopurbo, A.Ishihara, K.Iguchi, M.
Merapi (2968 m), located in central Java, is one of the most active and dangerous volcanoes in Indonesia. The volcano has repeated episodes of dome gr...
Using this environmental incident in Indonesia as a case study, this book explores representations of disaster in scientific reports, public discourse...
Numerical models for simulating volcanic debris avalanches commonly lack a critical initiation parameter, the source volume, which is difficult to est...
We document the first time series of a landslide reactivation by an earthquake using continuous GPS measurements over the Maca landslide (Peru). Our s...
Earthquakes can trigger the eruption of mud. We use eruptions in Azerbaijan, Italy, Romania, Japan, Andaman Islands, Pakistan, Taiwan, Indonesia, and ...
Bayas, J. L.Ekadinata, A.Widayati, A.Marohn, C.Cadisch, G.
Land cover roughness coefficients (LCRs) have been used in multivariate spatial models to test the mitigation potential of coastal vegetation to reduc...
Few empirical studies have rigorously analyzed the downstream economic benefits of watershed protection to generate economic values of watershed servi...
Esteban, M.Tsimopoulou, V.Mikami, T.Yun, N. Y.Suppasri, A.Shibayama, T.
Since the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, there is a growing awareness of the risks that tsunamis pose to coastal communities. Despite the fact that the po...
Lario, J.Bardaji, T.Silva, P. G.Zazo, C.Goy, J. L.
This paper discusses possibilities to improve the Environmental Seismic Intensity Scale (ESI-07 scale), a scale based on the effects of earthquakes in...
Philip, A. K.Teh, H. M.Shafiai, S. H.Jaafar, A.Rashidi, A. H. M.
Tsunami run-up wave has been hypothesized as non-Newtonian fluid due to the presence of sediment and debris in its body. This paper asscesses the rheo...
The Philippines is recognized as one of the most natural hazard prone country in the world. The December 4, 2012 Super Typhoon Bopha(referred is the P...
Wicove, D. S.Giam, X., Edwards, D.Fisher, B.Koh, L. P.
In 2004, Navjot Sodhi and colleagues warned that logging and agricultural conversion of Southeast Asia's forests were leading to a biodiversity disast...
Suppasri, A.Goto, K.Muhari, A.Ranasinghe, P.Riyaz, M.Affan, M.Imamura, F.
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...
Several decades of research has produced considerable understanding of the complex and interacting factors contributing to the construction of social ...
Gonzalez-Riancho, P.Aliaga, B.Hettiarachchi, S.González Rodríguez, E. M.Medina Santamaría, R.
After several tsunami events with disastrous consequences around the world, coastal countries have realized the need to be prepared to minimize human ...
Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change have become a dominant theme in development and conservation research and work. Yet coastal communities...
In order to determine the prospective areas of the forthcoming earthquake sources, the bb-values of the frequency-magnitude earthquake distributions w...