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City (Sacavém District). Biological geotextile mats were constructed from palm leaves. At Sacavém, gully rehabilitation … development of vegetal cover. Rehabilitation used ~30 kg of grass seeds (Brachiaria decumbens) on slopes, in combination with …
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In this article, we assess the human and economic hazard posed by tsunami waves generated from impacts of sub-2 km … infrastructure loss of $18(+20/−12)M/y. Half of the tsunami hazard stems from impactors with diameters less than 300 m. One near … the mean generic scenario, the tsunami from the impact affects 1.1 million people and destroys $110B of infrastructure …
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. In the city of Padang, the arrival time of the tsunami is expected to be ~30 min. Currently, there are approximately 400 … for tsunami risk reduction in Padang through the development of a pedestrian and vehicular evacuation model and the … safety by the time the tsunami arrives. This means about 70,000 people of Padang’s current population, which is rapidly …
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populated city with over 750,000 inhabitants exhibits high tsunami vulnerability due to its very low elevation. We model … offshore tsunami amplitudes for Padang and other locations in the northern Mentawai fore-arc basin yield maximum values of …
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This paper introduces the application of a simple and practical method for estimating the risk associated with a potential tsunamigenic rockslide, by assessing quantitatively hazard, vulnerability, and elements at risk. The proposed method introduces empirical relations between the risk...
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To explore the local tsunami hazard from the Cascadia subduction zone we (1) evaluate geologically reasonable … coseismic deformations for simulation of tsunami inundation at Cannon Beach, Oregon. Maximum runup was 9–30 m (NAVD88) from … tsunami deposits was 14–15 m. By assigning variable weights to the source scenarios using a logic tree, we derived percentile …
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the effects of the tsunami. Numerical simulations are obtained from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration …’s method of splitting tsunami model which includes a source model, subsidence, and calculations of the propagation and …
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Sumba and Sumbawa. We estimate the potential hazard of each event by modeling the corresponding tsunami and its run-up on … </Subscript> = 8.3 earthquake. However, comparison of documented tsunami run-up heights and arrival times with our modeling …
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Rhodes Pass revealed three probable tsunami impacts as a result of the historical earthquakes of 1303, 1481 and 1741. Yet …, there have been relatively few studies of the processes associated with tsunami sediment transport, their deposition and … used to answer the open questions in tsunami and paleotsunami researches. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B …
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modeling processthat should be accounted for in translating modelingresults into information for tsunami mitigation andresponse …
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