Approaches for tsunami risk assessment and application to the city of Cadiz, Spain
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Sub-type Journal article Author Jelínek, Robert
Krausmann, Elisabeth
Gonzalez, Mauricio
Welle, Torsten
Birkmann, Joern
Alvarez-Gomez, Jose AntonioTitle 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.
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