Leveraging Social Media Data for Disaster Management in the Era of Large Language Models
Available online 27 March 2026
In the event of crises, social media provides comprehensive situational knowledge that can facilitate disaster management and response. However, extracting meaningful insights from social media data...
Integrating Advanced Machine Learning and AHP for Spatio-Temporal Glacier Lake Outburst Flooding (GLOF) Susceptibility Mapping: A Case Study in Pakistan’s Central Karakoram National Park (CKNP) from 2010 to 2024
Available online 24 March 2026
GLOFs pose significant risks in CKNP, home to 608 glaciers, including Baltoro. Previous research struggled to integrate upstream, downstream, environmental, and anthropogenic factors due to data heterogeneity....
Analysis of the Compound Disaster Caused by Extreme Rainfall and Landslides in Sumatra, Indonesia in 2025 and Its Implications for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation
Available online 20 March 2026
This study investigates the extreme rainfall–landslide–flood disaster chain in November 2025 on Sumatra Island, Indonesia. The event caused significant casualties and infrastructure damage, exposing...
HeritEdge: An Audit-Ready Mobile–Web Workflow for Municipal Exposure Inventories and Seismic Vulnerability Reporting
Available online 19 March 2026
Reliable building-level exposure data remain a major bottleneck in municipal seismic risk assessment, particularly where inventories are fragmented, difficult to update, and weakly connected to quality-control...
Seismic Slope Stability Prediction Using an Optimized Deep and Cross Network: An AI-Based Approach
Available online 19 March 2026
This paper aims to propose slope stability based on the critical unit weight of AUS clay while considering a linearly increasing undrained shear strength subjected to horizontal seismic acceleration...
From Landslides to Debris Floods: Understanding Cascading Hazard Mechanisms in the Nyamwamba Catchment, Mt. Rwenzori
Available online 17 March 2026
Mountainous regions, such as Mt. Rwenzori, face cascading hazards where rainfall-induced landslides in inaccessible areas trigger debris-laden floods, which in turn cause hazardous river channel changes...
Riverine Flood Mapping Methods and Criteria: A Meta-Analysis Review and Synthesized Guidelines
Available online 14 March 2026
River floods are the most destructive flood type, hence the need for accurate riverine flood mapping (RFM). Previous studies often chose methods and criteria subjectively or after extensive testing,...
Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis based on Microtremor Data: A Site Effect Study for Earthquake Disaster Mitigation at Malang Regency, Indonesia
Available online 13 March 2026
The 6.1 magnitude earthquake on April 10, 2021, with its hypocenter near the southern coast of Malang Regency, Indonesia, caused extensive damage, including in the Turen District. Turen District is...
Numerical and Spatial Assessment of Coastal Vegetation and Topographic Elevation for Tsunami Mitigation in Southern Java
Available online 12 March 2026
This study presents a numerical and spatial assessment of tsunami mitigation strategies using CADMAS-SURF 2D and ArcGIS. Two scenarios are evaluated: coastal vegetation belts and topographic elevation...
Hydrodynamic Reconstruction of the March 2024 Flood and Hazard Mapping in the Acre River Basin, Southwestern Amazon
Available online 11 March 2026
Flood events have increasingly affected urban areas in the southwestern Amazon, raising concerns about the exposure of cities located along major river floodplains. This study investigates the March...
Development of a Rapid Post-Earthquake Pancake Collapse Detection and Mapping Method Based on Threshold Determination of Building Height Information: A Case Study of the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake
Available online 9 March 2026
During the “Information Gap” period immediately following a large-scale earthquake, rapidly and quantitatively assessing the damage across a wide area is extremely important for optimizing rescue operations....
Mapping Health Vulnerability in Australia in the Context of Environmental Disasters
Available online 7 March 2026
Australia faces increasing health pressures from climate-related disasters, particularly bushfires and floods, which interact with existing social and geographic inequities. Traditional health indexes...
Research as Part of the Legislative Process: Lessons from a Statewide Study of Inclusive Emergency Alerts
Available online 24 February 2026
Scientific research can help inform policy decisions, especially when research is integrated into the legislative process. This paper explores research included in Colorado House Bill 23-1237, which...
From coping to strategy: community adaptive-capacity pathways for flood resilience under unfolding climate complexities
Available online 24 February 2026
The increasing prevalence and intensity of water-related disasters, particularly flooding, present significant challenges for communities in the Global South, where inadequate institutional support...
When Artificial Intelligence Meets Cultural Knowledge: Forecasting Storm Surge Risks, Predicting Disaster Preparedness, and Building Resilient Coastal Communities in the Philippines
Available online 21 February 2026
This study assesses immediate storm surge impacts and community responses to Supertyphoon Pepito in Bicol, Philippines, and provides a comprehensive mixed-method analysis of storm surge risk and disaster...
Developing a Framework for Large Hail Prediction Utilizing Monthly Occurrence Probability and Storm Environments
Available online 11 February 2026
Climate change is expected to influence the frequency and intensity of severe convective storms , with implications for large hail (LH) and associated economic losses. This study develops an empirical...
Rainfall intermittency in the Colombian Andes and its modulation by ENSO
Available online 10 February 2026
Rainfall intermittency is a key feature of precipitation variability in mountainous regions, influencing hydrological dynamics across multiple temporal scales. This study analyzes the spatial and temporal...
The Sismo on tour project: a seismology educational initiative to promote resilience within schools in northern Italy
Available online 8 February 2026
We describe the “Sismo on Tour” experience to discuss if and to what extent educational initiatives can effectively contribute to building community resilience. In the last fifteen years a bunch of...
Storm Surges in the Arabian Gulf: Characteristics and Atmospheric Drivers
Available online 4 February 2026
Storm surges are major natural hazards that threaten coastal communities worldwide. This study examines storm surge characteristics and driving mechanisms in the Arabian Gulf using a two-dimensional...
Explainable boosting reveals threshold-based controls on flash-flood susceptibility in the Texas Hill Country, USA
Available online 1 February 2026
Flash floods constitute an escalating hazard in the Texas Hill Country, where steep topography and hydroclimatic extremes converge to produce rapid-onset disasters. In July 2025, Kerr County experienced...
Physics-Guided Deep Learning for Radar Rainfall Nowcasting in Flash-Flood Early Warning: Lead-Time Skill and an Illustrative Utility Proxy
Available online 27 January 2026
Urban flash floods can be triggered by highly localised convective storms, for which 10–60 minutes of additional warning can materially affect emergency response. We study short-lead radar rainfall...
Predicting China’s forest fire regimes at various spatial and temporal scales based on drought characteristics under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways
Available online 24 January 2026
Future climate change will lead to extreme weather events, such as droughts, which may exacerbate forest fire regimes. However, the impact of future drought characteristics on forest fire regimes has...
Investigation of an unusual extreme precipitation event in the Jaru biological reserve, Brazilian Amazonia
December 2025
This study analyzes the seasonality and magnitude of precipitation at three strategically positioned stations near Ji-Paraná in the Brazilian Amazon, aiming to assess the representativeness of data...
Data-driven ground motion model for aftershock seismic hazard assessment in the Himalayan region
December 2025
Aftershock Earthquake poses a significant risk to structures already weakened by a mainshock, potentially leading to further damage or collapse. Despite their critical impact, aftershocks are often...
Resiliency of hydraulic infrastructure designs in a climate hot-spot at the intersection of two climate zones
December 2025
Flood damages to hydraulic infrastructure leads to devastating economic losses in the Southeast Texas/Southwest Louisiana region. This area lies at the cusp of the humid southeastern US and the more...