Research
This paper expands the previous efforts by other researchers to present a quantitative and deterministic approach for terrain analysis. This study evaluates both spatial and temporal factors contributing lands...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:19
Published on: 10 July 2017
Research
Extreme rainfall events are enormously frequent and abrupt in tropical areas like the Jeju Island of South Korea, impacting the hydrological functions as well as the social and economic situation. Rainfall mag...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:18
Published on: 28 June 2017
Research
The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region being seismically active and sensitive to climate change is prone to glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF). The Lemthang Tsho GLOF breached in the evening of 28 July 2015 inn...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:17
Published on: 2 June 2017
Editorial
In 2016, Geoenvironmental Disasters published 29 scientific articles. Besides the appreciation to the authors who contributed their works to the journal, we want to express our sincere acknowledgement to the r...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:16
Published on: 30 May 2017
Research
In the last few decades, the development of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology has provided a method for the evaluation of landslide susceptibility and hazard. Slope units were found to be appro...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:15
Published on: 14 April 2017
Research
In April 2016, Kumamoto City, Japan, and its surroundings were hit by a sequence of strong and devastating earthquakes including two significant events, one on April 14th, 2016, at 21:26 JST (Mw6.2) and the other...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:13
Published on: 5 April 2017
Short report
The Gorkha, Nepal Mw 7.8 earthquake of 25 April 2015 triggered a large number of coseismic landslides in a broad area. Two highways, Araniko Highway and Pasang Lhamu Highway, that connect Tibet of China and Ne...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:14
Published on: 5 April 2017
Research
Strong earthquakes are among the prime triggering factors of landslides, which may block rivers, forming landslide dams. Some of these dams may pose serious threats to people and property due to upstream inund...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:12
Published on: 4 April 2017
Research
The Southeast of Yogyakarta City has had the heaviest damages to buildings in the 2006 of Yogyakarta Earthquake disaster. A moderate to strong earthquake of 6.3 Mw shook the 20 km southeast part of the Yogyaka...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:11
Published on: 24 March 2017
Research
The recent trend of increasing incidents of floods in Ethiopia is disrupting the livelihoods of a significant proportion of the country’s population. This study assesses the factors that shape the resilience a...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:10
Published on: 9 March 2017
Research
The current availability of advanced remote sensing technologies in the field of landslide analysis allows for rapid and easily updatable data acquisitions, improving the traditional capabilities of detection,...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:9
Published on: 7 March 2017
Research
Landslide hazard mapping is a fundamental tool for disaster management activities in fragile mountainous terrains. The main purpose of this study is to carry out landslide hazard assessment by weights-of-evide...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:8
Published on: 14 February 2017
Research
North Norway, the banks of the fjord Lyngen are highly exposed to a rockslide tsunami hazard. However, the local municipality believes that the coastal community is well-informed about the risk and ready to ev...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:7
Published on: 13 February 2017
Research
The concepts of disaster risk reduction and disaster risk management involve the development, improvement, and application of policies, strategies, and practices to minimize disaster risks throughout society. ...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:6
Published on: 10 February 2017
Research
Rock avalanches are flow-like landslides that can travel at extremely rapid velocities and impact surprisingly large areas. The mechanisms that lead to the unexpected mobility of these flows are unknown and de...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:5
Published on: 7 February 2017
Research
Koshi flood of August 2008 in eastern lowlands of Nepal affected around 2.64 million people in India and Nepal, including 65,000 people and 700 ha fertile land in Nepal. It was calculated that 25% of the affec...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:4
Published on: 31 January 2017
Research
Tailings dams are made up of mining residue deposits, and they represent a high risk, in terms of mechanical instability. In the event of collapse, the tailings in such dams may be released and flow over long ...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:3
Published on: 19 January 2017
Research
Landslides and landslide dams are a major natural hazard causing high socioeconomic risk in inhabited mountainous areas. This is also true for vast parts of south-western China, which are highly prone to slope...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:2
Published on: 17 January 2017
Editorial
The 14th International Symposium on Geo-disaster Reduction (ISGdR) was held on 10–13 October 2016 in Chengdu, China. The 15th ISGdR is to be held at the Shimane University in Matsue, Japan from 26 to 31 August...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2017 4:1
Published on: 4 January 2017
Reviewer acknowledgement
In 2015, Geoenvironmental Disasters published 26 articles. Besides the appreciation to the authors who contributed their works to the journal, we want to express our sincere acknowledgement to the referees, wh...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2016 3:30
Published on: 15 December 2016
Research
Landslides hazard analyses entail a scale-dependent approach in order to mitigate accordingly the damages and other negative consequences at the respective scales of occurrence. Medium or large scale landslide...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2016 3:29
Published on: 12 December 2016
Research
Since hurricane Katrina, developer and planners are looking at a tools and sustainable ways to minimize vulnerabilities in events of disasters especially along the coast. In this setting, remote sensing and Ge...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2016 3:25
Published on: 1 December 2016
Research
It is essential for residents to understand ground disaster and improve disaster prevention awareness, because natural disasters have occurred frequently in recent years. In this study, nondestructive unsatura...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2016 3:28
Published on: 1 December 2016
Research
Large landslides triggered by rainfall and floods were registered on both sides of the Rječina River Valley, near City of Rijeka, in Croatia, where numerous instability phenomena in the past 250 years have bee...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2016 3:26
Published on: 1 December 2016
Research
Indonesia is one of the most earthquake prone countries in the world. More than 14,000 earthquakes of magnitude greater than 5 occurred in Indonesia between 1897 and 2009. Earthquakes are a major cause of slop...
Geoenvironmental Disasters 2016 3:27
Published on: 1 December 2016
