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Disasters, Volume 50, Issue 3, July 2026.Abstract This study investigates the claim that women are disproportionately more likely to die in disasters by reviewing existing data sources and compiling new datasets on sex‐differentiated disaster fatalities in the twenty‐first century. The analysis is structured by disaster type, covering geophysical, meteorological, climatological, hydrological,
Olivier Rubin
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EARLY DETECTION OF NEAR-FIELD TSUNAMIS USING UNDERWATER SENSOR NETWORKS [PDF]
Science of Tsunami Hazards, 2012 We propose a novel approach for near-field tsunami detection, specifically for the area near the city of Padang, Indonesia. Padang is located on the western shore of Sumatra, directly across from the Mentawai segment of the Sunda Trench, where ...
L. E. Freitag +4 more
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Loess Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand
New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, Volume 69, Issue 2, June 2026.Loess in Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ) has been studied since its first documented recognition (on Banks Peninsula) in 1878 by Julius von Haast. A decade later, John Hardcastle revealed that southern ANZ loess was both glacial in origin and contained signals of past climates.
Brent V. Alloway +4 more
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Posible origen catastrófico de las secuencias asociadas al límite K/T en Cuba Oriental
Minería y Geología, 2003 En la porción oriental de Cuba se localizan facies terrígenas y carbonatadas, acumuladas en aguas profundas de cuencas a cuestas y de antepaís, caracterizadas por la presencia de macrobrechas de calizas, flysch arcilloso-arenoso vulcanomíctico, flysch ...
Félix Quintas-Caballero +1 more
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The 2004 and 2005 Sumatra Earthquakes: Implications for the Lisbon earthquake [PDF]
, 2005 The Sumatra mega-earthquake of 26 December 2004 (Mw=9.3) was the strongest earthquake in the world since the 1964 Alaska earthquake and the fifth strongest since 1900. The earthquake occurred at the interface of the India and Burma plates and triggered a
Bezzeghoud, M. +2 more
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An Overview of Tsunami Hazards in the Southwest Pacific Ocean
New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, Volume 69, Issue 2, June 2026.The southwest Pacific region is geologically complex and exhibits all the principal causes of tsunami generation. While contemporary events and historical catalogs indicate that trans‐Pacific tsunamis have affected this area (∼18% of tsunamis reported globally), it is unique in that a large part of the tsunami effects over the ∼200‐year historical ...
Jean H. M. Roger +13 more
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Creating Flood Disasters: Environmental Memory and Adaptation in Aotearoa New Zealand
Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 2, June 2026.This article explores three questions. First, why does New Zealand have widespread flooding hazards? Second, why are these persistent, with little seemingly learned from the memory of earlier events? And third, beyond reiterating conventional solutions, what examples of alternatives or adaptations are being developed in different places?
Eric Pawson
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TSUNAMI WAVE PROPAGATION ALONG WAVEGUIDES [PDF]
Science of Tsunami Hazards, 2009 This is a study of tsunami wave propagation along the waveguide on a bottom ridge with flat sloping sides, using the wave rays method. During propagation along such waveguide the single tsunami wave transforms into a wave train.
Andrei G. Marchuk
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Surviving the Tsunami of Receiving a ‘Goodbye’ Note
Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, EarlyView.
Roya Haghiri‐Vijeh, Archana Paul
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