Residential building and occupant vulnerability to tephra fall [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2005 Plinian and subplinian volcanic eruptions can be accompanied by tephra falls which may last hours or days, posing threats to people, buildings and economic activity. Numerous historical examples exist of tephra damage and tephra casualties.
R. J. S. Spence +4 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020 Estimations of the distribution and eruptive volume of large-scale pyroclastic density current (PDCs) and tephra fall deposits are essential for evaluation of the affected area, long-term volcanic hazards assessments, volcanic activity, and geophysical ...
Shinji Takarada, Hideo Hoshizumi
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Revised Minoan eruption volume as benchmark for large volcanic eruptions [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 Despite their global societal importance, the volumes of large-scale volcanic eruptions remain poorly constrained. Here, we integrate seismic reflection and P-wave tomography datasets with computed tomography-derived sedimentological analyses to estimate
Jens Karstens +14 more
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Vegetation responses to past volcanic disturbances at the Araucaria araucana forest‐steppe ecotone in northern Patagonia [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Volcanic eruptions play an important role in vegetation dynamics and its historical range of variability. However, large events are infrequent and eruptions with a significant imprint in today's vegetation occurred far in the past, limiting our ...
Ricardo Moreno‐Gonzalez
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A scenario-based volcanic hazard assessment for the Mount Meager Volcanic Complex, British Columbia [PDF]
Journal of Applied Volcanology, 2022 The Mount Meager Volcanic Complex (Mount Meager) is a glacier-clad stratovolcanic system in southwestern British Columbia which last erupted over 2400 years ago (VEI 4).
Rachel Warwick +3 more
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Creating a digital database of tephra fallout distribution and frequency in Japan
Journal of Applied Volcanology, 2022 Tephra fallout is a potential hazard to livelihoods, critical infrastructure, and health, even in areas that are far from volcanoes. Therefore, it is important to quantitatively evaluate tephra fall hazards for both residents and infrastructure around ...
Shimpei Uesawa +3 more
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Drivers of crop impacts from tephra fallout
Volcanica, 2022 Agriculture is an economic and social pillar for the least developed countries. When these regions host volcanoes that exhibit explosive behaviour, a serious risk for agricultural production arises as crops endure various impacts from tephra fall.
Noa Ligot +2 more
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Laboratory tests to understand tephra sliding behaviour on roofs
Journal of Applied Volcanology, 2023 Following explosive eruptions, loading from tephra fall deposits can lead to roof collapse. However, the load may be reduced significantly by tephra sliding on pitched roofs. We present small-scale laboratory tests to investigate tephra sliding behaviour
Sara Osman +4 more
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Environmental Impact of Silicic Magmatism in Large Igneous Province Events
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 133-151., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Scott E. Bryan
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Journal of Applied Volcanology, 2022 Tephra fall can lead to significant additional loading on roofs. Understanding the relevant geomechanical properties of tephra is critical when assessing the vulnerability of buildings to tephra fall and designing buildings to withstand tephra loads ...
Sara Osman +3 more
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