Natural disasters are public emergencies characterized by suddenness, universality, and
nonconventionality. Realizing the early warning, monitoring, and intervention of natural …

Response behavior of individuals is of critical importance to decrease chances of injury and
death as well as ameliorate costs in property and infrastructure damage in natural disasters …

Risk perception is considered the primary motivator for taking preparedness actions. But
people with prior experience and a high‐risk perception are not necessarily more prepared …

Physical scientists have estimated that the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) has as much
as a 25% chance to produce a M9. 0 earthquake and tsunami in the next 50 years, but few …

Extensive research has studied the near-field tsunami threat in the Cascadia Subduction
Zone (CSZ), but little research has examined the ability to evacuate the inundation zone …

Risk perception, a judgment of how risk is perceived individually and communicated
scientifically, helps clarify local knowledge, know-how, and experience. However …

With natural hazard events increasing globally, it is important to establish an effective
evacuation procedure to mitigate their impacts. This paper investigates factors contributing …

Abstract In October 2019, California became the first state in the United States to fully
activate a public earthquake early warning system—ShakeAlert®—managed by the US …

This study identifies trends in disaster science research as well as knowledge gaps at a
broad scale in order to help underpin and inform future research in the area. A numerical …

Difficulties in the disaster management process are caused by many factors such as the
complexity and fast-spreading harmful effects of hazards, lack of timely and accurate …