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  1. The initial phase of earthquake hazard assessment involves the consolidation of diverse magnitude scales, thereby requiring the homogenization of various magnitudes. Moment magnitude (Mw) emerges as the prefer...

    Authors: Alemayehu Letamo, B. Kavitha and T. P. Tezeswi
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2023 10:19
  2. The Southern Suez Canal Province (SSCP) has recently encountered hydro-environmental hazards such as water logging and soil salinization, both of which impede the efficient land use planning.

    Authors: Ahmed E. El-Rayes, Mohamed O. Arnous, El-Arabi H. Shendi, Mohamed H. Geriesh and Ranem A. Gharib
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2023 10:18
  3. The mining-induced stress in the surrounding rock after coal seam mining is the primary cause of damage and failure of the surrounding rock in the mining area. However, the magnitude and direction of the stres...

    Authors: Shoulong Ma, Mingwei Zhang, Lu Ma, Zhuangcai Tian, Xue Li and Zhenhao Su
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2023 10:17
  4. Consolidation of clays could be a very time-consuming procedure. However, preloading can increase the speed of consolidation; applying an electric field can accelerate this procedure significantly. The efficie...

    Authors: Ali Zareh, Ramin Vafaei Poursorkhabi, Alireza Alizadeh Majdi and Fariba Behrouz Sarand
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2023 10:16
  5. In recent years, the technology of blocking and grouting of has been widely used in the treatment of groundwater inrush in tunnels in China’s mines. Studies have been carried out on the aggregates pouring unde...

    Authors: Wanghua Sui, Zongyuan Liu, Gailing Zhang, Deguang Mao, Ruijian Li and Jinxi Liang
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2023 10:15
  6. Landslides involving sensitive clays are recurrent events in the world's northern regions and are especially notorious in eastern Canada. The two critical factors that separate sensitive clay landslides from t...

    Authors: Zinan Ara Urmi, Ali Saeidi, Rama Vara Prasad Chavali and Alba Yerro
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2023 10:14
  7. Rapid construction of buildings in urban area is creating lack of space available for new construction. This problem enforced to construct building on slope in hilly regions. However, the engineers and designe...

    Authors: Sanjaya Kumar Jain, Mohammed Saleh Nusari, Rajyaswori Shrestha and Abhay Kumar Mandal
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2023 10:13
  8. Marine geological disasters (i.e., catastrophic events occurring in marine environments) may seriously threaten the safety of engineering facilities, life, and property in shallow- and deep-sea areas. The deve...

    Authors: Xiaolei Liu, Yueying Wang, Hong Zhang and Xingsen Guo
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2023 10:10
  9. After flood occurrences, remote sensing images provide crucial information for mapping flood inundation extent. Optical satellite images can be utilized to generate flooded area maps when the flooded areas are...

    Authors: Asif Sajjad, Jianzhong Lu, Xiaoling Chen, Chikondi Chisenga and Nausheen Mazhar
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2023 10:9
  10. Tsunamis are rare events compared to other disasters but have devastating consequences. In the last 100 years, more than 24 tsunamis and more than 235,000 fatalities have occurred globally. Indonesia has a hig...

    Authors: Ibrahim, Syamsidik, Azmeri, Muttaqin Hasan, Abdullah Irwansyah and Muhammad Daffa Al Farizi
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2023 10:8
  11. Landslide risk analysis is a common geotechnical evaluation and it aims to protect life and infrastructure. In the case of sensitive clay zones, landslides can affect large areas and are difficult to predict. ...

    Authors: Blanche Richer, Ali Saeidi, Maxime Boivin, Alain Rouleau and Yan Lévesque
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2023 10:6
  12. With the increased frequency of extreme weather, landslides induced by extremely heavy rainfall pose a major threat to human lives and property safety. In July 2020, a landslide occurred in the strongly weathe...

    Authors: Honghua Liu, Peng Yu, Haitao Lu, Yongjian Xie, Zhongsheng Wang, Shengyou Hao, Hongjun Liu and Yunxia Fu
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2023 10:5
  13. Coastal communities are highly exposed to ocean- and -related hazards but often lack an accurate population and infrastructure database. On January 15, 2022 and for many days thereafter, the Kingdom of Tonga w...

    Authors: Bruce Enki Oscar Thomas, Jean Roger, Yanni Gunnell and Salman Ashraf
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2023 10:4
  14. On September 5, 2022, an Ms 6.8 earthquake occurred in Luding County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China. The casualties and economic losses caused by the earthquake are huge. Most of the land...

    Authors: Zikang Xiao, Chong Xu, Yuandong Huang, Xiangli He, Xiaoyi Shao, Zhaoning Chen, Chenchen Xie, Tao Li and Xiwei Xu
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2023 10:3
  15. On 15 January 2022, a submarine volcanic eruption occurred at Hunga Tonga. Time-series monitoring from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-17) was analysed to estimate the magnitude, lo...

    Authors: Kounghoon Nam, Fawu Wang, Kongming Yan and Guolong Zhu
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2023 10:2
  16. The areas prone to geological hazards such as liquefaction need special attention with respect to social vulnerability. Though liquefaction by itself may not result in damage, it may trigger a series of ground...

    Authors: Saravana Ganesh Manoharan and Ganapathy Pattukandan Ganapathy
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2023 10:1
  17. To investigate the initial microstructure and water retention capacity of compacted loess molded under different compaction energy, the soil–water characteristic curves (SWCCs) and pore-size distribution curve...

    Authors: Tao Xiao, Ping Li, Zhenhui Pan and Jiading Wang
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2022 9:27
  18. Microzonation becomes important for big cities like Medan (North Sumatra, Indonesia) as population agglomeration increases in urban areas resulting in rapid and unplanned construction. Mitigation efforts must ...

    Authors: Teguh Rahayu, Zulkifli Nasution, Roesyanto and Dwikorita Karnawati
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2022 9:26
  19. The joint event of 20th International Symposium on Geo-disaster Reduction (20th ISGdR) was held onsite and online during 16–19 August 2022 in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. This symposium focused o...

    Authors: Xi Xiong, Bo Zhang, Masaho Yoshida and Masakatsu Miyajima
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2022 9:24
  20. The study area located at southeast Gansu, China, has long been afflicted by the intense occurrence of geohazards. The study area is characterized by interleaving terrain of precipitous mountains and valley ba...

    Authors: Shuai Zhang, Ping Sun, Ran Li, Yanlin Zhang and Jian Ren
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2022 9:23
  21. Unfolding events have shown that Sierra Leone is enduring various disasters at a worrying rate. While progress is being made in disaster management, activities that degrade the fragile ecosystem, exacerbated b...

    Authors: Bashiru Turay and Sheku Gbetuwa
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2022 9:22
  22. A 6.6-Mw earthquake struck the Iburi region of Hokkaido, Japan, in 2018, triggering massive landslides. Most of these landslides were shallow and occurred mostly in the Atsuma and Abira towns. Ta-c and Ta-d tephr...

    Authors: Mega Lia Istiyanti and Satoshi Goto
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2022 9:21
  23. The flood protection embankments of Hungary and Europe face numerous challenges. Some dike bases were constructed more than 200 years ago; since then, they have been elevated and extended. Because of these ite...

    Authors: Zsombor Illés and László Nagy
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2022 9:20

    The Correction to this article has been published in Geoenvironmental Disasters 2023 10:12

  24. At the beginning of October 2021, the northwest China suffered torrential rainfall and several loess landslides were induced in Northwest China. This work presents a typical case (the Zhongzhai landslide) reac...

    Authors: Shuai Zhang, Ping Sun, Jian Ren, Haojie Wang, Peng Xin and Tao Wang
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2022 9:19
  25. This article critically investigates a catastrophic rainfall-induced landslide event that occurred on 27 July 2021 in the Kutupalong Rohingya Camp (KRC) in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, from geological and geomorph...

    Authors: A. S. M. Maksud Kamal, Farhad Hossain, Bayes Ahmed and Peter Sammonds
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2022 9:17
  26. In recent years, landslides have become a typical monsoon calamity in the Western Ghats region of Kerala, India. In addition to property damage, heavy rainfall (36% above normal) and multiple landslides (4728)...

    Authors: R. S. Ajin, D. Nandakumar, A. Rajaneesh, T. Oommen, Yunus P. Ali and K. S. Sajinkumar
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2022 9:16
  27. This paper presents an experimental investigation of the plugging efficiency of aggregate pouring through multiple boreholes under flowing water conditions into an inundated mine tunnel. Aggregate pouring into...

    Authors: Shuang Hui, Wanghua Sui, Gailing Zhang, Jiaxing Chen and Shibo Yu
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2022 9:15
  28. The 2019 Mw 7.0 Banten, Indonesia, earthquake occurred at a 49 km depth in a relatively unknown region, where the geological structure did not clearly show the fault. In this study, we use the Global Navigation S...

    Authors: Endra Gunawan, Widjo Kongko, Munawar Kholil, Bayu Triyogo Widyantoro, Sri Widiyantoro, Pepen Supendi, Nuraini Rahma Hanifa, Ira Mutiara Anjasmara, Cecep Pratama and Aditya Riadi Gusman
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2022 9:14
  29. Uncertainties exist in the magnitude and outbreak of debris flow disasters, resulting in significant loss of lives and property to human society. Improved identification of debris flow susceptibility areas can...

    Authors: Huange Xu, Peng Su, Qiong Chen, Fenggui Liu, Qiang Zhou and Linshan Liu
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2022 9:13
  30. Runoff information and its dynamics are critical for supporting watershed management; however, spatio-temporal data about runoff is rare or unavailable in data-scarce regions. Information about the performance...

    Authors: Bagus Setiabudi Wiwoho and Ike Sari Astuti
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2022 9:12
  31. On April 25th, 2015, the Gorkha earthquake jolted the central region of Nepal, causing extensive damage to buildings and grounds in the urban areas of Nepal. One embankment section of Kathmandu-Bhaktapur Road,...

    Authors: Masataka Shiga, Kazuo Konagai, Rama Mohan Pokhrel and Takaaki Ikeda
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2022 9:11
  32. Full understanding the interaction mechanisms between flow-like landslides and the impacted protection structures is an open issue. While several approaches, from experimental to numerical, have been used so f...

    Authors: Angela Di Perna, Sabatino Cuomo and Mario Martinelli
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2022 9:8
  33. Bangladesh is a land of natural calamities. Due to locational disadvantages, especially being situated at the tip of the funnel-shaped Bay of Bengal on the south and at the foot of Himalayas on the north, ever...

    Authors: Md. Mizanoor Rahman, Md. Alamgir Hossain, Md. Rayhan Ali, Zihad Ahmed and A. H. M. Hedayutul Islam
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2022 9:6
  34. This paper examines the environmental and economic impact of cloudburst-triggered debris flow and flash flood in four villages of Uttarkashi district, Uttarakhand Himalaya. On 18th July 2021 at 8:30 p.m., a cl...

    Authors: Vishwambhar Prasad Sati and Saurav Kumar
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2022 9:5
  35. In recent years, many landslides have occurred in Vietnam, particularly in the Northern mountainous region during the rainy season from May to October. On the morning of October 12, 2017, the Khanh waterfall l...

    Authors: Ngoc Ha Do, Satoshi Goto, Shinro Abe, Kim Thanh Nguyen, Toyohiko Miyagi, Kazunori Hayashi and Osamu Watanabe
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2022 9:4
  36. Landslides are one of the most important geohazards. In 2004–2016, more than 55,000 people lost their lives to landslides and this does not include deaths caused by seismically triggered landslides. Overall lo...

    Authors: Kwan Ben Sim, Min Lee Lee and Soon Yee Wong
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2022 9:3
  37. This paper proposes a three-phase method that combines multi-source (i.e. topographic, thematic, monitoring) input data in a GIS environment to rank—at small (1:250,000) scale—administrative units (e.g. munici...

    Authors: Giovanni Gullà, Gianfranco Nicodemo, Settimio Ferlisi, Luigi Borrelli and Dario Peduto
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2021 8:31
  38. The main objective of this study is to understand the overall impact of earthquake in upper Indrawati Watershed, located in the high mountainous region of Nepal. Hence, we have assessed the relationship betwee...

    Authors: Pawan Gautam, Tetsuya Kubota and Aril Aditian
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2021 8:30
  39. During the operation of landfills, leachate recirculation and aeration are widely applied to accelerate the waste stabilization process. However, these strategies may induce high pore pressures in waste, there...

    Authors: Shi-Jin Feng, Shao-Jie Wu, Wen-Ding Fu, Qi-Teng Zheng and Xiao-Lei Zhang
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2021 8:29
  40. Groundwater-withdrawal-induced land subsidence has been a big concern in Montgomery County, Texas, U.S. since the 2000s. As of 2020, approximately half of the entire county is experiencing subsidence over 5 mm...

    Authors: Kuan Wang, Guoquan Wang, Brendan Cornelison, Hanlin Liu and Yan Bao
    Citation: Geoenvironmental Disasters 2021 8:28