Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 22, issue 12
Articles | Volume 22, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-4103-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-4103-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 22, issue 12
Research article
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22 Dec 2022
Research article |  | 22 Dec 2022

Equivalent hazard magnitude scale

Yi Victor Wang and Antonia Sebastian

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In this article, we propose an equivalent hazard magnitude scale and a method to evaluate and compare the strengths of natural hazard events across different hazard types, including earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, droughts, forest fires, tornadoes, cold waves, heat waves, and tropical cyclones. With our method, we determine that both the February 2021 North American cold wave event and Hurricane Harvey in 2017 were equivalent to a magnitude 7.5 earthquake in hazard strength.
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