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Flood hazard maps in Matucana village under climate change scenarios
... Abstract Possible effects of climate change on floods magnitude and effects are discussed in this document based on existing data and projected changes in precipitation until 2099. This methodology is applied to Matucana ...
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Probabilistic seismic hazard in terms of intensities for Bulgaria and Romania – updated hazard maps
... calculations half intensities have been counted to the next higher full intensity), enlarging the field to the Bulgar- ian territory because of new available digitized macroseismic data from Vrancea intermediate depth ...
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Deriving global flood hazard maps of fluvial floods through a physical model cascade
... flood hazard maps for different return pe- riods are derived from a cascade of models and ...resulting maps are physically plausible by showing the analy- ses of global and continental maps of ...
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Geomorphological method in the elaboration of hazard maps for flash-floods in the municipality of Jucuar´an (El Salvador)
... the results owing to short and discontinuous periods of rain- fall data with the result that probabilistic equations cannot be applied. The Manning method yields a wide range of results because of its dependence on the ...
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Strategies for the development of volcanic hazard maps in monogenetic volcanic fields: the example of La Palma (Canary Islands)
... for hazard maps, the most significant volcanic hazards are taken into consideration, with most proba- ble or worst possible scenarios defined by the scientific committee (De la Cruz-Reyna and Tilling ...
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Evaluation of flood hazard maps in print and web mapping services as information tools in flood risk communication
... flood hazard maps and flood risk maps by all member ...flood hazard maps or hazard zone maps but the implementation level still is very ...flood hazard maps ...
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Solving the dilemma of transforming landslide hazard maps into effective policy and regulations
... landslide hazard within an area remain a critical component in reducing landslide hazard through the planning ...slide hazard levels as to show land ownership and topogra- ...landslide hazard ...
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Probabilistic seismic hazard maps from seismicity patterns analysis: the Iberian Peninsula case
... on until the adequate dimension is obtained. Shaw used these plots and the concept of information based on Shannon’s en- tropy in order to study the evolution of the system, the knowl- edge of the future states from the ...
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Fault specific GIS based seismic hazard maps for the Attica Region, Greece
... Figure 10: Fault Specific Seismic hazard map of the Athens center. Color variations show how many times these localities have received enough energy to shake at intensity VIII over the past 15kyrs. This map offers ...
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Samoa technical report Review of volcanic hazard maps for Savai'i and Upolu
... In his opening address at the SOPAC 34 th Annual Session in Apia 2005, Hon. Faumuina Liuga, Minister of Works, Transport and Infrastructure recalled the historical eruptions on Savai’i highlighting the persisting risk of ...
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Integrating spatial, temporal, and size probabilities for the annual landslide hazard maps in the Shihmen watershed, Taiwan
... After establishing the landslide susceptibility model and calculating the landslide susceptibility index for each slope unit, the model accuracy was assessed using a classification error matrix, SRC, and the frequency ...
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Statistical theory of probabilistic hazard maps: a probability distribution for the hazard boundary location
... volcanic hazard analysis which maps prob- abilities of a given event, the probability values may rep- resent a wide array of concepts in probability theory in- cluding cumulative probabilities, probability ...
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Estimation of Wind Hazard over Canada and Reliability-based Assignment of Design Wind Load
... Wind hazard maps based on the return period values of the annual maximum wind speed estimated using the considered approaches were developed and ...wind hazard maps based on the estimated v ...
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Study on Computer Generated Electromagnetic Effects on Computer Users
... the maps were integrated and coastal hazard delineation method was followed by cumbers method (2000c) used mean annual and monthly beach change rates were used to establish five coastal erosion categories ...
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Hazard index maps for woody material recruitment and transport in alpine catchments
... A higher accuracy level in the determination of extents of the AWB and RWB areas, as required for the produc- tion of hazard maps rather than on a hazard index level, can be achieved deserving ...
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Automated snow avalanche release area delineation – validation of existing algorithms and proposition of a new object-based approach for large-scale hazard indication mapping
... performed. But the major differences between the automated approach and the hazard maps can be explained by the ap- plied forest layer. The protection forest is highly dynamic and the forest in high ...
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Assessment methodology for the prediction of landslide dam hazard
... thickness of 4 m according to the head of the landslide body. In order to improve the quality of the DEM in the valley ar- eas, that is in the zones of possible interaction between water course and hillslopes, it was ...
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Probabilistic and deterministic estimates of near-field tsunami hazards in northeast Oman
... tsunami hazard at Sur coastal, on the northern Omani ...tsunami hazard maps depict- ing the maximum wave height and flow depth distribu- tions (deterministic assessment) and 100- and 500-year ...
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Improvement suggestions for problems of hazard map from the viewpoint of color scheme
... liquefaction hazard maps is mainly based on the following resources: “Manual for Liquefying Area Zoning” (Earthquake Disaster Countermeasure Division, Disaster Management Bureau, National Land Agency, ...
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Difficulties in explaining complex issues with maps: evaluating seismic hazard communication – the Swiss case
... society. Maps are an established way to illustrate natural ...that hazard maps are frequently ...seismic hazard model for Switzerland was analyzed in a representative online sur- vey of the ...
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