Hazards, Disasters and Resilience
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Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium · Hazards, Disasters and Resilience · Department of Hazard Science
Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, landslides and the measures behind their maps
Geophysical hazards are read through their intensity measures: MMI and peak ground acceleration for shaking, travel time for a tsunami, runout for a landslide, and the return periods a probabilistic seismic hazard analysis puts on them.
The subtopics its courses and labs teach.
Courses in development extend the scope to one further subject: Seismic risk reduction through codes and retrofit.
For engineers, planners, emergency managers and analysts who need to read a seismic, tsunami, volcanic or landslide hazard product and know what it does and does not promise.
Each method is listed with what it assumes and where it fails.
Bodies and standards are named so learners can find and apply their published work; the Academy teaches their use and links to the publisher, and no affiliation is implied.
Its chain from data to decision: set the parameters, play the steps, read each citation and the Nexus Standards each step teaches.
Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and landslides's own model, as a live chart: move each parameter and read how the outputs respond.
Search any place or open the world; the layers and generators follow earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and landslides on the planet map, the globe and in 3D.
Drag to move, right drag or Shift with a drag to turn and tilt, Ctrl with the wheel to zoom. Keyboard: arrows move, Shift with arrows turn and tilt, + and - zoom, 0 resets, V steps through the views, Escape clears.
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.
The boundaries, names and designations shown do not imply any judgement on the legal status of any territory, or any endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries. Countries: Natural Earth (public domain).
The Nexus Standards the discipline teaches toward, grouped by master standard, with the disciplines that teach each.
Nexus Standards at the AcademyThe Academy proposes how each discipline teaches toward the Nexus Standards; the mapping is open for review by the editors of the Nexus Standards.
Open scholarly sources searched with the subject terms of Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and landslides.
Search termsEarthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and landslides; Earthquake source, shaking and intensity; Seismic hazard assessment; Tsunami generation and warning; Volcanic hazards and monitoring; Landslides and debris flowsDerived from the Risk Academy page on Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and landslides.
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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 Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and landslides, each with its source and date. Open the research hub
From the Academy's risk taxonomy: the discipline's own entries and those of its primary courses, with how many courses teach each.
Recent developments in earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and landslides, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026.
Courses for this discipline are in development; until they open, study it through the connected courses and open lessons below.
Each course has its primary discipline elsewhere and teaches this field as part of its scope.
Field platforms of the ecosystem where the subject is studied and applied.
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Open courses in connected disciplines teach the methods this discipline will build on.