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Assessing seismic hazards involves specifying the likelihood, magnitude and location of earthquakes in a region. Predicting the seismic hazards is the first step in reducing the impact of the damage caused by an earthquake.  In this study, to fully utilize all the known parameters which may possibly affect the occurrence of earthquakes (mb ≥ 4.5); a data-driven rule-extraction method called the...

The Cascadia subduction zone (CSZ) is an exceptional geologic environment for recording evidence of land-level changes, tsunamis, and ground motion that reveals at least 19 great megathrust earthquakes over the past 10 kyr. Such are among most impactful natural hazards on Earth, transcend national boundaries, can have global impact.Reducing societal impacts future events in US Pacific Northwest...

In many countries, infrastructure plays a crucial role reducing losses during cyclone. Bangladesh is already extremely vulnerable to tropical cyclones, and its frequently damaged by such events. However, climate change expected make the itself, more cyclonic events in future. This paper assesses risk coastal under change, from multi-hazard perspective. A novel assessment matrix proposed, examin...

In this study, we develop stochastic random-field slip models for the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and conduct a rigorous sensitivity analysis of tsunami hazards with respect to the uncertainty of earthquake slip and fault geometry. Synthetic earthquake slip distributions generated from the modified Mai-Beroza method captured key features of inversion-based source representations of the mega-thrust e...