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Landslide Potential in Santo Domingo De Heredia, Costa Rica, Central America
(2014-10)
This paper reports results from a survey of landslide potential in the canton (county) of Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica. This canton, like much of Central America, is located in a tropical region with abrupt topography ...
Spatial Analysis of Disaster Risk in Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica, Central America
(2014-07)
This article summarizes the results of an investigation into disaster risk in the canton (county) of Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica. This canton is exposed to several natural hazards as well as technological risks. ...
Assessment of Physical Vulnerability in Santo Domingo De Heredia, Costa Rica, Central America
(2014-09)
This work assesses the physical vulnerability of the Santo Domingo Canton in the province of Heredia in Costa Rica. We evaluate the vulnerability of areas located in high risk zones as well as the structural resistance of ...
Tsunamis and Tsunami Hazards in Central America
(2000-02)
A tsunami catalogue for Central America is compiled containing 49 tsunamis for the
period 1539–1996, thirty seven of them are in the Pacific and twelve in the Caribbean. At the Caribbean side, 5 events are related with ...
Faulting, shallow seismicity and seismic hazard analysis for the Costa Rican Central Valley
(2000)
A seismic hazard map for the Metropolitan Area of San Jose has been elaborated, based on local tectonic and seismic information. The area for the hazard computation covers an area of 20 x 15 km2 and includes the zone where ...
Tecnologías para la prevención y mitigación de desastres naturales
(Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, 2019)
Tecnologías para la prevención y mitigación de desastres naturales
(Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, 2019)
Inundaciones en Córdoba: ¿Son realmente eventos extraordinarios y extremos?
(Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Tierra, 2017-07)
Las inundaciones en el territorio cordobés constituyen un problema cíclico que produce cuantiosos perjuicios materiales y humanos, al que no se le presta la debida atención pues se las considera como algo excepcional e ...
Sobre inundaciones y anegamientos.
(Universidad de Chile; Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo., 2006)
Respecto a anegamientos e inundaciones, el autor realiza algunas precisiones conceptuales que afectan la gestión de acciones preventivas, la planificación y el ordenamiento territorial; además se ofrece una sistematización ...