RT Journal Article
T1 Approaches for tsunami risk assessment and applicationto the city of Cádiz, Spain
A1 Jélinek, Robert
A1 Kraussman, E.
A1 González, M.
A1 Álvarez Gómez, José Antonio
A1 Birkmann, J.
A1 Welle, T.
AB Tsunamis can represent a significant risk to the population and cause hugeeconomic damage in many costal regions. In order to be able to identify risk hot spots andimplement targeted risk reduction measures, decision makers need to have a clear pictureof the risk situation in their countries or regions. This work reviews existing approaches fortsunami risk assessment and recommends a five-step process for assessing tsunami risk. Asa case study, a qualitative risk assessment for a worst-case tsunami scenario was carried outto understand the tsunami risk to the population in Ca´diz. Moreover, a sensitivity analysisof the tsunami hazard input parameters was performed as a strong influence of the variabilityof the input parameters on the resultant tsunami hazard and risk zonation maps wasobserved. The study shows that regardless of the assumptions made a non-negligibletsunami risk to Ca´diz exists.
PB Springer Verlag
SN 0921-030X
YR 2012
FD 2012
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44270
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44270
LA eng
DS Docta Complutense
RD 28 abr 2024