Purpose The Arab world is made up of 22 countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
These countries are subjected to many social, economic, political and geographical …

The increased availability of post-tsunami damage data over the past decade has led to a
growing inventory of empirical vulnerability functions that model the damage response of …

Decision makers in the field of disaster management have many tools at their disposal to
assist them in making informed decisions. They make use of the available information to set …

This manuscript presents empirical building fragility functions that were developed based on
data obtained from the 29th September 2009 South Pacific tsunami. A multi-disciplinary …

The December 26th tsunami of 2004 caused an unprecedented disaster in the Indian
Ocean. In Sumatra, a third of the Banda Aceh area was destroyed and 70,000 people died …

The criteria for zoning the surface fault rupture hazard (SFRH) along thrust faults are defined
by analysing the characteristics of the areas of coseismic surface faulting in thrust …

The 63,605 damaged buildings from the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami in Ishinomaki were used
to develop 52 fragility curves using linear regression. The data comprise the damage level …

The influence of a building array on tsunami-driven run-up loads is studied through
laboratory experiments and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations. Results show …

This work reviewed, assessed, enhanced and field-tested one of the most widely used index-
based methods for assessing the vulnerability of buildings to tsunamis: the Papathoma …

Providing sufficient structures suitable for vertical evacuation from tsunamis is critically
important for a tsunami-prone city like Banda Aceh, the city most severely affected by the …