Assessing transportation vulnerability to tsunamis: utilising post-event field data from the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami, Japan, and the 2015 Illapel tsunami, Chile

Williams, James H.; Wilson, Thomas M.; Horspool, Nick; Paulik, Ryan; Wotherspoon, Liam; Lane, Emily M.; Hughes, Matthew W.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-451-2020

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19 Feb 2020

Research article |

| 19 Feb 2020

Assessing transportation vulnerability to tsunamis: utilising post-event field data from the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami, Japan, and the 2015 Illapel tsunami, Chile

James H. Williams, Thomas M. Wilson, Nick Horspool, Ryan Paulik, Liam Wotherspoon, Emily M. Lane, and Matthew W. Hughes

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RC1: 'Great new contribution to the tsunami vulnerability research area', Grant Wilson, 30 Oct 2019
- AC2: 'Responses to reviewer #1', James Hilton Williams, 07 Jan 2020
RC2: 'Comments on "Assessing Transportation Vulnerability to Tsunamis: Utilising Post-event Field Data from the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami, Japan, and the 2015 Illapel Tsunami, Chile"', Constance Ting Chua, 15 Nov 2019
- AC3: 'Responses to reviewer #2', James Hilton Williams, 07 Jan 2020
SC1: 'Comments on the paper Assessing Transportation Vulnerability to Tsunamis', Rafael Aranguiz, 19 Nov 2019
- AC1: 'Response to comment', James Hilton Williams, 07 Jan 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (08 Jan 2020) by Elena Petrova

AR by James Hilton Williams on behalf of the Authors (09 Jan 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (21 Jan 2020) by Elena Petrova

Short summary

Post-event field survey data from two tsunami events, the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami, Japan, and the 2015 Illapel tsunami, Chile, are used in this study to develop fragility functions for roads and bridges. This study demonstrates the effectiveness of supplementing post-event field surveys with remotely sensed data. The resulting fragility functions address a substantial research gap in tsunami impacts on infrastructure and include a range of subtleties in asset and hazard characteristics.