Tsunami damage to ports: cataloguing damage to create  fragility functions from the 2011 Tohoku event

Chua, Constance Ting; Switzer, Adam D.; Suppasri, Anawat; Li, Linlin; Pakoksung, Kwanchai; Lallemant, David; Jenkins, Susanna F.; Charvet, Ingrid; Chua, Terence; Cheong, Amanda; Winspear, Nigel

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-1887-2021

Articles | Volume 21, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-1887-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-1887-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 21, issue 6

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17 Jun 2021

Research article |

| 17 Jun 2021

Tsunami damage to ports: cataloguing damage to create fragility functions from the 2011 Tohoku event

Constance Ting Chua, Adam D. Switzer, Anawat Suppasri, Linlin Li, Kwanchai Pakoksung, David Lallemant, Susanna F. Jenkins, Ingrid Charvet, Terence Chua, Amanda Cheong, and Nigel Winspear

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Tsunami damage to ports: Cataloguing damage to create fragility functions from the 2011 Tohoku event Chua, C. T., Switzer, A. D., Suppasri, A., Li, L., Pakoksung, K., Lallemant, D., Jenkins, S., Charvet, I., Chua, T., Cheong, A. and Winspear, N. https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/OTZMT1

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Port industries are extremely vulnerable to coastal hazards such as tsunamis. Despite their pivotal role in local and global economies, there has been little attention paid to tsunami impacts on port industries. For the first time, tsunami damage data are being extensively collected for port structures and catalogued into a database. The study also provides fragility curves which describe the probability of damage exceedance for different port industries given different tsunami intensities.