The addition of passing lanes has been a long standing need on Idaho Route 55. This narrow, winding road is one of the few routes that links Boise, Idaho, with destinations to the north. The roadway is bounded by a steep rising slope on the east, and a precipitous drop to the Payette River on the west. Additionally, the area is known for landslide hazards. Given these hazards and uncertainties ...

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...

A principal difficulty in insuring catastrophic risks is the insufficiency of disaggregated historical data on the catastrophe losses. The lack of data and complex spatial and dynamic interdependencies between catastrophic events imply the necessity to base the insurance of property against natural hazards on catastrophe modeling. The purpose of this research is to develop a working tool for in...

In the last years satellite remote sensing applications in hydrology have considerably progressed. A new multi-temporal satellite data-analysis approach has been recently suggested in order to estimate space-time changes of geophysical parameters possibly related to the increase of environmental and hydro-geological hazards. Such an approach has been already used both for flooded area mapping (...

the aim of this work is to understand the relation between time and place that an earthquake takes place. in order to answer this question, the modified level crossing (mlc) technique has been implemented. by studying two earthquakes, one in iran and one in california we came to the conclusion that there is a relation between time and place of an earthquake occurrence. as a matter of fact, this...

Event deposits in lake sediments provide invaluable chronicles of geodynamic and climatic natural hazards on multi-millennial timescales. Sediment archives are particularly useful for reconstructing high-impact, low-frequency events, which rarely observed instrumental or historical data. However, attributing a trigger mechanism to event can be challenging as different types events produce with ...