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  2. Landslide dams inevitably demonstrate the potential for catastrophic failure with high-risk damage to life and property at the downstream site. Hence, knowledge of the internal stability of dam materials is a ...

    Authors: Prakash Dhungana and Fawu Wang

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2020 7:13

    Content type: Research

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  4. This study focuses on two weak points of the present procedure to carry out microzoning study in near-field areas: (1) the Ground Motion Prediction Equations (GMPEs), commonly used in the reference seismic haz...

    Authors: Giovanna Vessia, Mario Luigi Rainone, Angelo De Santis and Giuliano D’Elia

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2020 7:11

    Content type: Research

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  5. This study investigated the space-time drought incidence in the northeastern highlands of Ethiopia using monthly rainfall data. It also aims to predict drought events for 100 years. The Standardized Precipitat...

    Authors: Abebe Arega Mekonen, Arega Bazezew Berlie and Mehrete Belay Ferede

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2020 7:10

    Content type: Research

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  7. The city of Banda Aceh stands on Holocene fluvial basin sediment, surrounded by the Aceh and Seulimeum fault segments where large magnitude earthquakes can occur at any time. Such earthquakes could cause exten...

    Authors: Ibnu Rusydy, Yunita Idris, Mulkal, Umar Muksin, Phil Cummins, Muhammad Nouval Akram and Syamsidik

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2020 7:8

    Content type: Research

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  9. Landslide-affecting factors are uncorrelated or non-linearly correlated, limiting the predictive performance of traditional machine learning methods for landslide susceptibility assessment. Deep learning metho...

    Authors: Kounghoon Nam and Fawu Wang

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2020 7:6

    Content type: Research

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  10. Globally erosion has been considered as an environmental and agricultural problem since the first agricultural revolution. In Ethiopia gully erosion has been recorded as a very serious and common socio-economi...

    Authors: Getahun Hassen and Amare Bantider

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2020 7:5

    Content type: Research

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  12. Landslide Hazard Zonation (LSH) maps play a key role in landuse planning particularly in landslide prone areas. LSH mapping is globally accepted one for analyzing the area for landslide susceptibility. Differe...

    Authors: Edison Thennavan and Ganapathy Pattukandan Ganapathy

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2020 7:3

    Content type: Research

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  13. In this paper, we estimate the seismogenic energy during the Nepal Earthquake (25 April 2015) and studied the ground motion time-frequency characteristics in Kathmandu valley. The idea to analyze time-frequenc...

    Authors: Binod Adhikari, Subodh Dahal, Monika Karki, Roshan Kumar Mishra, Ranjan Kumar Dahal, Sudipta Sasmal and Virginia Klausner

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2020 7:2

    Content type: Research

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  15. Thousands of landslides were triggered by the Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake on 6 September 2018 in Iburi regions of Hokkaido, Northern Japan. Most of the landslides (5627 points) occurred intensively betwe...

    Authors: Kounghoon Nam and Fawu Wang

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:19

    Content type: Research

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  19. Geoenvironmental Disasters - an open access journal of the International Consortium on Geo-disaster Reduction (ICGdR) - is being published since 2014. This contribution aims at characterising 115 papers published...

    Authors: Adam Emmer, Vít Vilímek, Fawu Wang and Zili Dai

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:15

    Content type: Editorial

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  20. On September 6th, 2018, at 3:07 local time, a strong earthquake of magnitude Mw = 6.6 struck the east Iburi region in Hokkaido, Japan. Many serious damages such as landslide, liquefaction and collapse of houses o...

    Authors: Yuko Serikawa, Masakatsu Miyajima, Masaho Yoshida and Kenji Matsuno

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:14

    Content type: Research

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  21. On 14–18 March 2019, the UNESCO Chair 2019 Field School on Geoenvironmental Disaster Reduction has been held in Shimane University, Japan. The field school comprised two-day field work and three-day academic l...

    Authors: Fawu Wang, Miguel Clüsener-Godt and Zili Dai

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:13

    Content type: Editorial

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  22. The UNESCO Chair Workshop on Geoenvironmental Disaster Reduction was held on 28 April – 1 May 2019 in Palu City and Jakarta, Indonesia. Firstly, this article introduces the background and objectives of the wor...

    Authors: Fikri Faris, Teuku Faisal Fathani and Fawu Wang

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:12

    Content type: Editorial

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  24. An error occurred during the publication of a number of articles in Geoenvironmental Disasters. Several articles were published in volume 6 with a duplicate citation number.

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    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:10

    Content type: Publisher Correction

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    The original article was published in Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:7

    The original article was published in Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:6

  26. This research examines the susceptibility of logged and regenerated forest region to erosion through the application of the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and geographical information systems (GIS). In ord...

    Authors: H. Vijith and D. Dodge-Wan

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:8

    Content type: Research

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  27. This manuscript reviews seismic isolation and response control methods of buildings, which are able to make buildings resilient against earthquakes and have become popular during the last three decades in Japa...

    Authors: Yutaka Nakamura and Keiichi Okada

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:7

    Content type: Review

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    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:10

  28. On September 28th, 2018, at 18:02 local time (10:02 UTC), a strong earthquake of magnitude Mw = 7.5 struck Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. The epicenter was located at 0.256o south latitude and 119.846o eas...

    Authors: Masakatsu Miyajima, Hendra Setiawan, Masaho Yoshida, Yusuke Ono, Kenji Kosa, Ida Sri Oktaviana, Martini and Irdhiani

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:6

    Content type: Short report

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    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:10

  31. High basin of Oum Er Rbia River, which is located in Middle Atlas Mountain region, is prone to landslide problems due to the geological features combined with the climate change and human activities. The prese...

    Authors: Aafaf El Jazouli, Ahmed Barakat and Rida Khellouk

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2019 6:3

    Content type: Research

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  36. Earthquakes in liquefaction-prone areas are frequently followed by the settlement of surface structures due to subsoil liquefaction. This paper aims to study the influence of geosynthetics along with gravel us...

    Authors: Hendra Setiawan, Yuko Serikawa, Wataru Sugita, Hajime Kawasaki and Masakatsu Miyajima

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2018 5:22

    Content type: Research

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  38. On 27–31th August 2018, the 16th International Symposium on Geo-disaster Reduction (ISGdR) has been held in Strasburg, France, focusing on the theme of “Global Strategy for Geo-disaster Reduction”. Through Key...

    Authors: Xiaoli Su, Miguel Clüsener-Godt and Fawu Wang

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2018 5:20

    Content type: Editorial

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  39. Climate change and rising sea level will certainly lead to significant changes in the management of low-lying coastal areas in the coming decades. While the most recent studies in the field of coastal storms-r...

    Authors: Paul Durand, Brice Anselme, Stéphanie Defossez, Sylvain Elineau, Monique Gherardi, Lydie Goeldner-Gianella, Esméralda Longépée and Alexandre Nicolae-Lerma

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2018 5:19

    Content type: Research

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  41. Monitoring coastal erosion and flooding in deltaic environment is a major challenge. The uncertainties associated with land based methods and remote sensing approaches affect the levels of accuracy, reliabilit...

    Authors: Kwasi Appeaning Addo, Philip-Neri Jayson-Quashigah, Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe and Francisca Martey

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2018 5:17

    Content type: Research article

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  43. This study analyzes individuals’ perceptions of areas exposed to coastal flooding at a local level using sketch mapping methodology. In this way, 318 individuals were surveyed in four coastal municipalities in...

    Authors: Marie Coquet, Denis Mercier and Ghozlane Fleury-Bahi

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2018 5:15

    Content type: Research

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  44. Unlike the studies undertaken on agricultural and hydrological sectors, focused climate change vulnerability researches in urban centers in Ethiopia is not widely available and of recent history. However, as m...

    Authors: Getnet Feyissa, Gete Zeleke, Ephrem Gebremariam and Woldeamlak Bewket

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2018 5:14

    Content type: Research

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  45. In Italy landslides are widespread natural phenomena causing a significant number of fatalities and huge economic losses throughout the country every year. Information on the spatial and temporal distribution ...

    Authors: Michele Calvello and Gaetano Pecoraro

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2018 5:13

    Content type: Database

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  47. Landslides area controversial issue worldwide and cause a wide range of impacts on the socio-economic systems of the affected community. However, empirical studies of affected environments remain inadequate fo...

    Authors: E. N. C. Perera, D. T. Jayawardana, P. Jayasinghe, R. M. S. Bandara and N. Alahakoon

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2018 5:11

    Content type: Research

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  50. Floods are the most common and most expensive natural hazard, and they are expected to become more frequent as the climate changes. This article presents research that used re/insurance catastrophe models to e...

    Authors: Jason Thistlethwaite, Andrea Minano, Jordan A. Blake, Daniel Henstra and Daniel Scott

    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2018 5:8

    Content type: Research

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