Abstract Exposure to multiple natural hazard-related disasters will become more common due climate change. This article reports on the development and validation of a cumulative measure exposure (2013–2017) at area level, an individual-level disaster impact using data from Longitudinal Cohort Study Filipino Child linked International Disaster Database (EM-DAT). Caregiver had statistically signi...

In natural hazard emergencies, visual media (images, videos) document and convey the possible risk, impact, severity of hazard. Issues arise when visuals being circulated, at scale speed, are manipulated, fake, or from an unrelated event location. These problematic can impact how communities interpret risk emergency. Further, present information (i.e. a cue) in conflict with what emergency serv...

Technological advancement in recent years has resulted larger and taller wind turbines (WTs) with enhanced power generation capacities. Application of natural hazard risk quantification for WTs helps stakeholders plan, design, install, operate farms safely profitably. This study focuses on a review the risks to from earthquakes, strong wind, hurricanes, tsunamis, lightning. The structural failu...

Abstract: The exponential distribution is a popular model in applications to real data. We propose a new extension of this distribution, called the Lomax-exponential distribution, which presents greater flexibility to the model. Also there is a simple relation between the Lomax-exponential distribution and the Lomax distribution. Results for moment, limit behavior, hazard function, Shannon entr...

Flash floods are considered to be one the worst kind of hazard. They are characterized by their suddenness, rarity, small scale, heavy rain and peak discharge, unpredictable, fast and violent movement. It has severe effects on human society in the form life losses, damages to property, roads, communication and on natural settings. Advances in hydrology, meteorology, engineering, using of GIS an...

Frequency-magnitude distributions, and their associated uncertainties, are of key importance in statistical seismology. When fitting these distributions , the assumption of Gaussian residuals is invalid since event numbers are both discrete and of unequal variance. In general, the observed number in any given magnitude range is described by a binomial distribution which, given a large total num...

Moral hazard in natural disaster insurance markets has the effect that policyholders prepare less for disasters, which increases the risk they face. However, moral hazard may not arise due to high risk aversion of insured individuals and/or the inherent insurance market context. We offer a comprehensive empirical study of the relation between disaster risk reduction and insurance coverage to as...

Objectives: Do Ontario unionized construction firms have lower workers’ compensation claims rates compared with nonunion firms? Methods: Building trade and construction trade association lists of union contractors were linked to Workplace Safety and Insurance Board claims data for 2006 to 2012. Data were pooled for 2006 to 2012, and negative binomial regressions conducted with adjustment to est...