The Life Scientific: Bruce Malamud
Discovery
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The Multi-Hazard Relationship
There are a lot of commonalities in the statistics and this is where some of the ideas of self-organized behavior came from. It does sound unlikely you know earthquakes landslides, forest fires physically these are very different sorts of events but there's a lot of connectivity between them. We took 21 single hazards ranging from earthquakes to floods to tornadoes to space weather and mapped these out so you have 441 possible interactions 21 by 21. Of these we found theoretical evidence for 90 interactions and we put this into a paper which became one of the major papers at the time. Ten years later many people are doing it almost every research grant has the word multi-hazards in it or hazard casc
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