After more than 100 years of earthquake research, earthquake forecasting, which relies on
knowledge of past fault rupture patterns, has become the foundation for societal defense …

Far-field tsunamis and their features, as well as methods to quantify trans-oceanic tsunamis
are reviewed, with examples of instrumental and historical data. Tsunamis from the 1854 …

Abstract The heterogeneous South American geology has coined a wide variety of
neotectonic settings where crustal seismogenic sources do occur. This fact has led to …

We present a comprehensive probabilistic seismic hazard study for Ecuador, a country
exposed to a high seismic hazard from megathrust subduction earthquakes and moderate …

Near the Atacama Desert, Tacna city in Peru is among the largest arid cities with constant
urban development, thus understanding of the urban surface thermal pattern is needed. We …

The western flank of the Central Andes hosts some of the largest terrestrial landslides (v> km
3), which morphologies are particularly well-preserved due to low erosion rates related to …

So far in this century, six very large–magnitude earthquakes (MW≥ 7.8) have ruptured
separate portions of the subduction zone plate boundary of western South America along …

SUMMARY Northwestern South America is a plate boundary zone where the Nazca,
Caribbean and South American plates interact to produce a wide area of active continental …

We propose the use of variable resolution boundaries based on Central Voronoi
Tessellations (CVT) to spatially aggregate building exposure models for risk assessment to …

Earthquake rupture speed can affect ground shaking and therefore seismic hazard.
Seismological observations show that large earthquakes span a continuum of rupture …