Approaches for tsunami risk assessment and application to the city of Cadiz, Spain

Jelínek, Robert, Krausmann, Elisabeth, Gonzalez, Mauricio, Welle, Torsten, Birkmann, Joern and Alvarez-Gomez, Jose Antonio, (2012). Approaches for tsunami risk assessment and application to the city of Cadiz, Spain. Natural Hazards, 60 273-293

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    Author Jelínek, Robert
    Krausmann, Elisabeth
    Gonzalez, Mauricio
    Welle, Torsten
    Birkmann, Joern
    Alvarez-Gomez, Jose Antonio
    Title Approaches for tsunami risk assessment and application to the city of Cadiz, Spain
    Appearing in Natural Hazards
    Volume 60
    Publication Date 2012
    Place of Publication Dordrecht
    Publisher Springer
    Start page 273
    End page 293
    Language eng
    Abstract

    Tsunamis can represent a significant risk to the population and cause huge economic damage in many costal regions. In order to be able to identify risk hot spots and implement targeted risk reduction measures, decision makers need to have a clear picture of the risk situation in their countries or regions. This work reviews existing approaches for tsunami risk assessment and recommends a five-step process for assessing tsunami risk. As a case study, a qualitative risk assessment for a worst-case tsunami scenario was carried out to understand the tsunami risk to the population in Cádiz. Moreover, a sensitivity analysis of the tsunami hazard input parameters was performed as a strong influence of the variability of the input parameters on the resultant tsunami hazard and risk zonation maps was observed. The study shows that regardless of the assumptions made a non-negligible tsunami risk to Cádiz exists.

    Copyright Holder Springer
    Copyright Year 2012
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