Brief communication: Loss of life due to Hurricane Harvey
An analysis was made of the loss of life caused by Hurricane Harvey. Information was collected for 70 fatalities that occurred due to the event and were recovered within the first 2 weeks after landfall. Most fatalities occurred due to drowning (81 %), particularly in and around vehicles. Males...
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doaj-07774c0dce54436f91da97dafa00bba52020-11-25T01:11:13ZengCopernicus PublicationsNatural Hazards and Earth System Sciences1561-86331684-99812018-04-01181073107810.5194/nhess-18-1073-2018Brief communication: Loss of life due to Hurricane HarveyS. N. Jonkman0M. Godfroy1A. Sebastian2A. Sebastian3B. Kolen4B. Kolen5Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering & Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the NetherlandsDepartment of Hydraulic Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering & Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the NetherlandsDepartment of Hydraulic Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering & Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the NetherlandsDepartment of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TexasDepartment of Values, Technology, and Innovation, Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the NetherlandsHKV Consultants, Lelystad, the NetherlandsAn analysis was made of the loss of life caused by Hurricane Harvey. Information was collected for 70 fatalities that occurred due to the event and were recovered within the first 2 weeks after landfall. Most fatalities occurred due to drowning (81 %), particularly in and around vehicles. Males (70 %) and people over 50 years old (56 %) were overrepresented in the dataset. More than half of the fatalities occurred in the greater Houston area (<i>n</i> = 37), where heavy rainfall and dam releases caused unprecedented urban flooding. The majority of fatalities were recovered outside the designated 100- and 500-year flood hazard areas.https://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/18/1073/2018/nhess-18-1073-2018.pdf |
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An analysis was made of the loss of life caused by
Hurricane Harvey. Information was collected for 70 fatalities that occurred
due to the event and were recovered within the first 2 weeks after
landfall. Most fatalities occurred due to drowning (81 %), particularly in
and around vehicles. Males (70 %) and people over 50 years old (56 %)
were overrepresented in the dataset. More than half of the fatalities
occurred in the greater Houston area (<i>n</i> = 37), where heavy rainfall and dam
releases caused unprecedented urban flooding. The majority of fatalities were
recovered outside the designated 100- and 500-year flood hazard areas. |
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