A new method to compile global multi-hazard event sets

This study presents a new method, the MYRIAD-Hazard Event Sets Algorithm (MYRIAD-HESA), that compiles historically-based multi-hazard event sets. MYRIAD-HESA is a fully open-access method that can create multi-hazard event sets from any hazard events that occur on varying time, space, and intensity...

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Published in:Scientific reports 2023-08, Vol.13 (1), p.13808-13808, Article 13808
Main Authors: Claassen, Judith N., Ward, Philip J., Daniell, James, Koks, Elco E., Tiggeloven, Timothy, de Ruiter, Marleen C.
Format: Article
Language:English
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704/106
704/242
704/4111
Algorithms
Disaster risk
Disasters
Drought
Earthquakes
Heat waves
Humanities and Social Sciences
Hydrology
multidisciplinary
Risk assessment
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
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Summary:This study presents a new method, the MYRIAD-Hazard Event Sets Algorithm (MYRIAD-HESA), that compiles historically-based multi-hazard event sets. MYRIAD-HESA is a fully open-access method that can create multi-hazard event sets from any hazard events that occur on varying time, space, and intensity scales. In the past, multi-hazards have predominately been studied on a local or continental scale, or have been limited to specific hazard combinations, such as the combination between droughts and heatwaves. Therefore, we exemplify our approach by compiling a global multi-hazard event set database, spanning from 2004 to 2017, which includes eleven hazards from varying hazard classes (e.g. meteorological, geophysical, hydrological and climatological). This global database provides new scientific insights on the frequency of different multi-hazard events and their hotspots. Additionally, we explicitly incorporate a temporal dimension in MYRIAD-HESA, the time-lag. The time-lag, or time between the occurrence of hazards, is used to determine potentially impactful events that occurred in close succession. Varying time-lags have been tested in MYRIAD-HESA, and are analysed using North America as a case study. Alongside the MYRIAD-HESA, the multi-hazard event sets, MYRIAD-HES, is openly available to further increase the understanding of multi-hazard events in the disaster risk community. The open-source nature of MYRIAD-HESA provides flexibility to conduct multi-risk assessments by, for example, incorporating higher resolution data for an area of interest.
ISSN:2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-023-40400-5