Disastrous landslide events in the Sikkim Himalaya triggered by extreme early-monsoonal rainfall during May–June 2025
June 2026
Sikkim is a hotspot of landslides, particularly along the cut slopes of the road corridors. Recently from the 28th May to 4th June 2025, Sikkim witnessed an extreme rainfall event, which triggered shallow-to-deep-seated...
Beyond the evacuation zone: Agricultural passes and the wildfire crisis in California
June 2026
This study evaluates the Agricultural Pass (Ag Pass) program through a framework linking preparedness infrastructure, adaptive governance, and social capital to agricultural resilience during wildfire...
Deep transfer learning: new approach for predicting seismic vulnerability
June 2026
Seismic areas known for the catastrophic impact in both human and material loss, are considered as areas where identifying and predicting vulnerability is challenging specially when data is unavailable...
A practical framework for rapid earthquake damage estimation through multi-vehicle coordination and inter-agency collaboration: Integration of genetic algorithms and RGB image analysis
June 2026
Rapid and accurate assessment of building damage following large-scale earthquakes is essential for effective emergency response. This study proposes a practical framework that integrates camera-equipped...
Using deep learning to create an enhanced basemap from RGB satellite images for urban planning
June 2026
Precise segmentation of high-resolution satellite imagery is critical for a wide range of geospatial applications, including urban planning, environmental monitoring, and renewable energy infrastructure...
A holistic geospatial framework for assessing disaster resilience in coastal Bangladesh
June 2026
Coastal regions, while highly productive, are increasingly subjected to complex and interacting natural and anthropogenic stressors. For sustainable developement of these dynamic environments, systematic...
Does ENSO-driven climate variability increase coastal flooding? Insights from the Brebes coastal area, Indonesia
June 2026
Coastal flooding remains a major challenge in Brebes, Central Java, where aquaculture and low-lying settlements are highly exposed to sea-level variability. While tides and land subsidence are recognized...
Long-Term Offending Patterns in Christchurch City Following the 2010–11 Earthquakes: Evidence by Income, Age, and Gender
Available online 20 June 2026
•Christchurch earthquakes altered offending probabilities for a decade.•Combines Dynamic Difference-in-Differences and multinomial logistic regression models.•Links offender records and Inland Revenue...
A hybrid SAINT–NGBoost approach for stability assessment of cantilever flood walls in anisotropic clay
Available online 18 June 2026
This study develops a hybrid machine-learning framework for predicting the normalized factor of safety, FS*, of cantilever flood walls embedded in anisotropic undrained shear (AUS) clay. A numerical...
Psychological preparedness and risk perception for predicting earthquake preparedness behavior among university students in Nepal
Available online 18 June 2026
Understanding the drivers of earthquake preparedness behavior remains a critical challenge, particularly in contexts where awareness of earthquake risk is relatively high. This study examines the relative...
Spatial Wildfire Occurrence Modelling in a Subtropical Ecosystem: A Comparative Evaluation of Traditional and Modern Machine Learning Algorithms in the Sunshine Coast IBRA Bioregion
Available online 17 June 2026
Spatial wildfire occurrence pattern estimation is critical for mitigating ecological and socio-economic impacts in fire-prone subtropical regions. This study presents a comparative evaluation of traditional...
Examining Disaster Response Self-Efficacy and Flood Preparedness Behavior Among Filipino Youth: Moderating Role of Frequent Flood Experience
Available online 13 June 2026
This study investigates the relationship between disaster response self-efficacy and flood preparedness behavior among Filipino youth in Las Piñas City (LPC), with frequent flood experience (FFE) examined...
Spatially Explicit Ensemble Machine Learning for High-Resolution TVDI Mapping: Spatial Block Cross-Validation and SHAP Interpretability in a Topoclimatically Complex Mountainous Landscape
Available online 10 June 2026
Accurate spatial characterization of drought patterns across topographically complex terrain remains a critical challenge for adaptive land and water management. This study develops a robust spatial...
Wildfire-induced elemental changes in drinking water reservoir sediments
Available online 3 June 2026
Wildfires in forested source water areas increasingly threaten drinking water supplies amid climate and land use change. Fire-driven erosion and pollutant runoff can substantially degrade downstream...
A duration-dependent flood depth-damage function calibrated using FEMA NFIP claims from three U.S. hurricanes
Available online 29 May 2026
Standard depth-damage functions used in climate risk assessment–including those underpinning CLIMADA and JRC impact models–treat flood damage as an instantaneous function of water depth, ignoring the...
Development Characteristics and Multifactorial Coupling Mechanisms of Geohazards in a Developed Coastal Region: A Case Study of Guangdong Province, China
Available online 28 May 2026
To understand the developmental patterns and formation mechanisms of geohazards in developed coastal regions, this study takes Guangdong Province as an example and conducts a statistical analysis based...
An artificial fuzzy inference system combined with probabilistic methods for pre-earthquake building hazard risk assessments.
Available online 23 May 2026
Fuzzy inference system (FIS) is one of the artificial intelligence methodologies that works linguistically based on numerical data to reach effective categories as antecedent scientific results. This...
Logistic Regression-Based Identification and Spatiotemporal Analysis of Low-Temperature Rain and Snow Disasters in Southern China
Available online 21 May 2026
Low-Temperature Rain and Snow Disasters (LTRSDs) are recurrent winter hazards in southern China, yet their characteristics vary markedly under different winter climate backgrounds. Existing studies...
Development of Keetch and Byram Drought Index for future projection in the Siak Watershed, Indonesia
Available online 21 May 2026
Extreme drought is a major driver of forest and peatland fires in tropical regions, yet future drought dynamics in peat-dominated watersheds remain insufficiently quantified due to the limited integration...
Balancing speed and accuracy: Deep learning for rapid coseismic landslide mapping in large earthquake-affected areas
Available online 13 May 2026
Rapid identification of coseismic landslides over large earthquake-affected areas is critical for emergency rescue and rapid disaster assessment, yet remains challenging due to the trade-off between...
The implementation of data cube concept to the multidimensional data of social vulnerability assessment: An example of Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Available online 16 April 2026
Social vulnerability is a key component of disaster risk assessment because it reflects the capacity of populations to anticipate, cope with, and recover from hazards. However, vulnerability is inherently...
Multiscale Comparison of Regional Rainfall-Induced Landslide Predictive Models: The Example of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
Available online 1 April 2026
Severe storms can trigger hundreds to thousands of landslides in mountainous regions, yet predicting rainfall-induced landslides across spatial scales remains challenging. Most existing hazard models...
Geospatial analysis of the 2019-20 desert locust damage in northern India using MODIS and VIIRS satellite data
March 2026
Worldwide, locust outbreaks frequently impact large areas of land and millions of people. Remote sensing has emerged as one of the most essential data sources for effectively identifying and assessing...
Tracing fault systems from subsurface to surface in Yogyakarta and its surroundings, Indonesia
March 2026
The Yogyakarta area and its surroundings have a reasonably high population density and disaster vulnerability. Appropriate mitigation is essential to reduce the impact of earthquakes in this region...
Impact of land use and climate change on flood hazards in the gojeb river catchment, upper Omo-Gibe River Basin, Ethiopia
Available online 31 March 2026
Flooding and other hydrological hazards pose serious threats to human life and ecosystems worldwide. The Gojeb River Catchment in southwestern Ethiopia is increasingly vulnerable due to land use/land...