Topic

Cascading Hazards

Chains of natural hazards in which one event directly triggers the next, so that a remote slope failure can arrive far downstream as a different and larger hazard.

Current clusters

science1 publisher

A Guangxi snakebite death fits five defensible slots in the disaster loss record

Lakshman Srikanth and David Petley follow one fatality through the layers of interpretation that sit between a death and a database row, which is why the same typhoon can honestly carry a toll of 39 and a toll of 159 six weeks apart.

Publishers:eos.org

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption22
Hype gap−8
Incentives30
Confidence60

science6 publishers

Nepal's deluge began as a glacier falling a kilometre into a river it then dammed

Satellite and seismic analyses point to ice that snapped off above 5,000 metres, blocked the Lhende Khola and burst through hours later. Almost no rain preceded it, which is why the region's flood warning tools had nothing to read.

Publishers:eos.orglivescience.comnature.comnewscientist.comphys.orgscientificamerican.com

Perspective Coverage

6 publishers

Builder: Builder 43%
Operator: Operator 38%
Investor: Investor 19%

Reality

Evidence74
Adoption62
Hype gap−8
Incentives34
Confidence70