Bruce Malamud on modelling risk for natural hazards
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The Multi-Hazard Relationship
In 2007, you are made president of the Natural Hazards Division of the European Geosciences Union. And also around this point, you started exploring a subject that you've subsequently become very well known for: multi-hazard relationship. I had a PhD student, Joel Gill, and we decided to do a project on multi-hazards,. We looked at the interactions between different natural hazards. So is there an interaction between earthquakes and landslides? Yes. Is there an interactionBetween earthquakes and floods? Yes. It does sound unlikely, earthquakes, landslides, forest fires. Physically these are very different sorts of events, but there's a lot of connectivity between them. There
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