Research Center for Integrated Disaster Risk Management

The Disaster of Arborization and What Wildfires Reveal in Central Chile

ABSTRACT In the summer of 2017, the largest wildfires ever recorded in central Chile swept through and devastated the small logging town of Santa Olga. Within hours, decades of work by the timber industry and its laborers were wiped out, leaving no trace of what had been built. A...

Capturing the Epistemic Uncertainty in Subduction Earthquake Rupture Parameters

ABSTRACT Subduction earthquakes are highly destructive and can trigger devastating tsunamis, highlighting the need for a consistent probabilistic seismic-tsunami hazard assessment. However, current approaches treat both hazards separately: tsunami models use static coseismic slip...