Hazards, Disasters and Resilience
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
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Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium · Hazards, Disasters and Resilience
Hazard science starts with the process and its measure: magnitude and intensity for an earthquake, return period and depth for a flood, an index for heat or drought, a release scenario for an industrial site.
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The Hazard Science department has no model of its own yet; this is the model of the Faculty of Hazards, Disasters and Resilience it builds on.
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Flat plan of the same data: relief, the two epicentres with magnitude and depth, the WorldPop count grid and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices with WebGL once its data and library have been checked.
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The Nexus Standards the department teaches toward, grouped by master standard, with the disciplines that teach each.
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Open scholarly sources searched with the subject terms of Department of Hazard Science.
Search termsHazard Science; Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and landslides; Floods, storms and tropical cyclones; Heat, drought and wildfire; Technological, industrial and Natech hazards; Space weather and extraterrestrial hazardsDerived from the Risk Academy page on Department of Hazard Science.
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Research and preprints as they are published, by discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
The hub lists the newest research and preprints for 5 disciplines, each with its source and date. Open the research hub
Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and landslides, Floods, storms and tropical cyclones, Heat, drought and wildfire, Technological, industrial and Natech hazards, Space weather and extraterrestrial hazards
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