Earthquake-and-landslide events are associated with more fatalities than earthquakes alone
Earthquake-and-landslide events are associated with more fatalities than earthquakes alone
Natural hazards are natural processes of the complex Earth system and may interact and affect each other. Often a single hazard can trigger a subsequent, different hazard, such as earthquakes triggering landslides. The effect of such cascading hazards has received relatively little attention in the literature. The majority of previous research has focused on single hazards in isolation, and even multi-hazard risk assessment currently does not account for the interaction between hazards, therefore ignoring potential amplification effects. Global earthquake-and-landslide fatality data were used to model cascading events to explore relationships between the number of fatalities during single and cascading events and covariates. A multivariate statistical approach was used to model the relationship between earthquake fatalities and several covariates. The covariates included earthquake magnitude, gross domestic product, slope, poverty, health, access to cities, exposed population to earthquake shaking, building strength and whether a landslide was triggered or not. Multivariate regression analysis showed the numbers of earthquake fatalities are significantly affected by whether a subsequent landslide is triggered or not.
natural hazards, cascading hazards, risk, earthwuakes, landslides, coseismic
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Budimir, M.E.A.
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Atkinson, P.M.
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Lewis, H.G.
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June 2014
Budimir, M.E.A.
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Atkinson, P.M.
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Lewis, H.G.
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Budimir, M.E.A., Atkinson, P.M. and Lewis, H.G.
(2014)
Earthquake-and-landslide events are associated with more fatalities than earthquakes alone.
Natural Hazards, 72 (2), .
(doi:10.1007/s11069-014-1044-4).
Abstract
Natural hazards are natural processes of the complex Earth system and may interact and affect each other. Often a single hazard can trigger a subsequent, different hazard, such as earthquakes triggering landslides. The effect of such cascading hazards has received relatively little attention in the literature. The majority of previous research has focused on single hazards in isolation, and even multi-hazard risk assessment currently does not account for the interaction between hazards, therefore ignoring potential amplification effects. Global earthquake-and-landslide fatality data were used to model cascading events to explore relationships between the number of fatalities during single and cascading events and covariates. A multivariate statistical approach was used to model the relationship between earthquake fatalities and several covariates. The covariates included earthquake magnitude, gross domestic product, slope, poverty, health, access to cities, exposed population to earthquake shaking, building strength and whether a landslide was triggered or not. Multivariate regression analysis showed the numbers of earthquake fatalities are significantly affected by whether a subsequent landslide is triggered or not.
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Accepted/In Press date: 9 January 2014
e-pub ahead of print date: 18 January 2014
Published date: June 2014
Keywords:
natural hazards, cascading hazards, risk, earthwuakes, landslides, coseismic
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Aeronautics, Astronautics & Comp. Eng, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment
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Local EPrints ID: 389344
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/389344
ISSN: 0921-030X
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