Infectious disease outbreaks often occur in the aftermath of catastrophic events, either natural or man-made. While natural disasters such as typhoons/hurricanes, flooding and earthquakes have been known to increase the risk of infectious disease outbreak, the impact of anthropogenic disasters is less well-understood. Kaohsiung City is located in southern Taiwan, where most dengue outbreaks had...

Two loud explosions accompanied by two successive big dark clouds that would have been 300 metres high, had taken place at El Humazo geothermal manifestation at February 2003. These explosions produced some important geomorphologic and structural changes that were registered in the geothermal area and its surroundings. Among these, it can be mentioned the reactivation of a geothermal manifestat...

the current manuscript presents the validation of smoothed particle hydrodynamics (sph) techniques for wave generation by underwater explosion, utilizing the so-called dualsphysics numerical model. this numerical method is used to analyze generated waves which are initiated by man-made or natural explosions below free surface level of sea. in spite of the modeling limitations (e.g. absence of o...