Tsunami vulnerability assessment and its implications for coastal hazard analysis and disaster management planning, Gulf of Corinth, Greece

M. Papathoma; D. Dominey-Howes

Tsunami vulnerability assessment and its implications for coastal hazard analysis and disaster management planning, Gulf of Corinth, Greece

M. Papathoma, D. Dominey-Howes

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

135 Citations (Scopus)

37 Downloads (Pure)

Abstract

We apply a new tsunami vulnerability assessment method to two coastal villages in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece using the 7th February 1963 tsunami as a worse case scenario. In Akoli, 46.5% of all buildings are classified highly vulnerable (BV). Approximately, 26.3% of all households are located within buildings with a High BV classification whereas 85% of all businesses are located within buildings with a High BV classification and 13.7% of the population is located within buildings with a High BV classification. In Selianitika, 28.8% of all buildings are classified with a High BV and 11% of all households are located within buildings with a High BV classification. Also 29.3% of all businesses and 33.4% of all services are located within buildings with a High BV classification and 6.7% of the population is located within buildings with a High BV classification. We estimate the minimum costs of a hypothetical tsunami with a wave run-up (H(m)max) of +5 m. The results are considered significant because they have important implications for coastal risk assessment, resource allocation and disaster management planning.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	733-747
Number of pages	15
Journal	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Volume	3
Issue number	6
Publication status	Published - 2003

Bibliographical note

Copyright 2003 Papathoma et al; licensee European Geosciences Union. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Access to Document

Mq-2153-Publisher version (open access)Final published version, 3.86 MBLicence: Unspecified

Cite this

@article{d2ac66b2f4fe4f2babfd1cf924bde839,

title = "Tsunami vulnerability assessment and its implications for coastal hazard analysis and disaster management planning, Gulf of Corinth, Greece",

abstract = "We apply a new tsunami vulnerability assessment method to two coastal villages in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece using the 7th February 1963 tsunami as a worse case scenario. In Akoli, 46.5\% of all buildings are classified highly vulnerable (BV). Approximately, 26.3\% of all households are located within buildings with a High BV classification whereas 85\% of all businesses are located within buildings with a High BV classification and 13.7\% of the population is located within buildings with a High BV classification. In Selianitika, 28.8\% of all buildings are classified with a High BV and 11\% of all households are located within buildings with a High BV classification. Also 29.3\% of all businesses and 33.4\% of all services are located within buildings with a High BV classification and 6.7\% of the population is located within buildings with a High BV classification. We estimate the minimum costs of a hypothetical tsunami with a wave run-up (H(m)max) of +5 m. The results are considered significant because they have important implications for coastal risk assessment, resource allocation and disaster management planning.",

author = "M. Papathoma and D. Dominey-Howes",

note = "Copyright 2003 Papathoma et al; licensee European Geosciences Union. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.",

year = "2003",

language = "English",

volume = "3",

pages = "733--747",

journal = "Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences",

issn = "1561-8633",

publisher = "Copernicus Publications",

number = "6",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Tsunami vulnerability assessment and its implications for coastal hazard analysis and disaster management planning, Gulf of Corinth, Greece

AU - Papathoma, M.

AU - Dominey-Howes, D.

N1 - Copyright 2003 Papathoma et al; licensee European Geosciences Union. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

PY - 2003

Y1 - 2003

N2 - We apply a new tsunami vulnerability assessment method to two coastal villages in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece using the 7th February 1963 tsunami as a worse case scenario. In Akoli, 46.5% of all buildings are classified highly vulnerable (BV). Approximately, 26.3% of all households are located within buildings with a High BV classification whereas 85% of all businesses are located within buildings with a High BV classification and 13.7% of the population is located within buildings with a High BV classification. In Selianitika, 28.8% of all buildings are classified with a High BV and 11% of all households are located within buildings with a High BV classification. Also 29.3% of all businesses and 33.4% of all services are located within buildings with a High BV classification and 6.7% of the population is located within buildings with a High BV classification. We estimate the minimum costs of a hypothetical tsunami with a wave run-up (H(m)max) of +5 m. The results are considered significant because they have important implications for coastal risk assessment, resource allocation and disaster management planning.

AB - We apply a new tsunami vulnerability assessment method to two coastal villages in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece using the 7th February 1963 tsunami as a worse case scenario. In Akoli, 46.5% of all buildings are classified highly vulnerable (BV). Approximately, 26.3% of all households are located within buildings with a High BV classification whereas 85% of all businesses are located within buildings with a High BV classification and 13.7% of the population is located within buildings with a High BV classification. In Selianitika, 28.8% of all buildings are classified with a High BV and 11% of all households are located within buildings with a High BV classification. Also 29.3% of all businesses and 33.4% of all services are located within buildings with a High BV classification and 6.7% of the population is located within buildings with a High BV classification. We estimate the minimum costs of a hypothetical tsunami with a wave run-up (H(m)max) of +5 m. The results are considered significant because they have important implications for coastal risk assessment, resource allocation and disaster management planning.

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/1642339000

M3 - Article

SN - 1561-8633

VL - 3

SP - 733

EP - 747

JO - Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

JF - Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

IS - 6

ER -

Tsunami vulnerability assessment and its implications for coastal hazard analysis and disaster management planning, Gulf of Corinth, Greece

Abstract

Bibliographical note

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this