Ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR) is a concept of reducing the risk to
natural hazards by avoiding the developments and settlements in disaster-prone areas by …

The development, testing, and implementation of a real-time tsunami forecast model, the
method of splitting tsunami (MOST), is described. MOST is now used as an operational …

Fragility functions, as new measures for estimating structural damage and casualties due to
tsunami attack, are developed by an integrated approach using numerical modeling of …

Records of relative sea-level change extracted from corals of the Mentawai islands,
Sumatra, imply that this 700-kilometer-long section of the Sunda megathrust has generated …

In the upper crust, the chemical influence of pore water promotes time dependent brittle
deformation through sub‐critical crack growth. Sub‐critical crack growth allows rocks to …

The Mw 7.8 October 2010 Mentawai, Indonesia, earthquake was a “tsunami earthquake,” a
rare type of earthquake that generates a tsunami much larger than expected based on the …

We evaluate far-field tsunami hazard in the Indian Ocean Basin based on hydrodynamic
simulations of ten case studies of possible mega earthquakes at the major seismic zones …

In the framework of the German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System (GITEWS) the
assessment of tsunami risk is an essential part of the overall activities. The scientific and …

Extreme natural events, like eg tsunamis or earthquakes, regularly lead to catastrophes with
dramatic consequences. In recent years natural disasters caused hundreds of thousands of …

Tsunamis are infrequent events with the power to cause massive loss of life, large economic
losses, and cascading effects such as destruction of critical facilities. The recurrence of truly …