Max Van Wyk de Vries
@maxvwdv.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Natural Hazards @CamUniGeography &
@EarthSciCam | Fellow @CaiusCollege | All hazards are multihazards, but are any of them natural?
@EarthSciCam | Fellow @CaiusCollege | All hazards are multihazards, but are any of them natural?
Looking forward to seeing many of you at #EGU25 this year.
Keep an eye out for some presentations from our Cambridge Complex and Multihazard group (www.comhaz.com):
Keep an eye out for some presentations from our Cambridge Complex and Multihazard group (www.comhaz.com):
April 28, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Looking forward to seeing many of you at #EGU25 this year.
Keep an eye out for some presentations from our Cambridge Complex and Multihazard group (www.comhaz.com):
Keep an eye out for some presentations from our Cambridge Complex and Multihazard group (www.comhaz.com):
Also worrying news for penguins as a second stronghold of theirs, the Falkland Islands, is hit with a 41% tariff (??)
April 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Also worrying news for penguins as a second stronghold of theirs, the Falkland Islands, is hit with a 41% tariff (??)
Bad news for Heard Island as the US imposes a 10% tariff on its main export - windborne glaciovolcanic tephra. This is viewed as a boost for local Alaskan and Cascadia sources.
Particularly serious implications for very fine grain sizes as the crypto(tephra) market is volatile at the best of times.
Particularly serious implications for very fine grain sizes as the crypto(tephra) market is volatile at the best of times.
April 3, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Bad news for Heard Island as the US imposes a 10% tariff on its main export - windborne glaciovolcanic tephra. This is viewed as a boost for local Alaskan and Cascadia sources.
Particularly serious implications for very fine grain sizes as the crypto(tephra) market is volatile at the best of times.
Particularly serious implications for very fine grain sizes as the crypto(tephra) market is volatile at the best of times.
Ah no, just accidentally flipped the North arrow. The positions are correct. The figure below is correct now.
April 2, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Ah no, just accidentally flipped the North arrow. The positions are correct. The figure below is correct now.
The surface rupture passes within only a few hundred metres of the two main international airports in the region (Mandalay and Nyapyidaw), in each case with around 5 m of total slip.
April 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The surface rupture passes within only a few hundred metres of the two main international airports in the region (Mandalay and Nyapyidaw), in each case with around 5 m of total slip.
The maps show horizontal displacements in metres in the EW and NS directions. The fault ruptured by several metres over a distance of almost 500km with total slip was highest close to the largest city in the region, Mandalay.
April 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The maps show horizontal displacements in metres in the EW and NS directions. The fault ruptured by several metres over a distance of almost 500km with total slip was highest close to the largest city in the region, Mandalay.
Very sad to see the damage from the earthquake in Myanmar. My thoughts are with all affected by this disaster.
Understanding where and how much the fault slipped can help with damage assessments, so we've made some preliminary estimates from S2 (data: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
Understanding where and how much the fault slipped can help with damage assessments, so we've made some preliminary estimates from S2 (data: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
April 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Very sad to see the damage from the earthquake in Myanmar. My thoughts are with all affected by this disaster.
Understanding where and how much the fault slipped can help with damage assessments, so we've made some preliminary estimates from S2 (data: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
Understanding where and how much the fault slipped can help with damage assessments, so we've made some preliminary estimates from S2 (data: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
The 'alternative' A628 route has its own set of landslides as well... We've got a small project (with @britgeosurvey.bsky.social) looking at some of these landslide-road interactions and disruptions to transport on a national scale.
February 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The 'alternative' A628 route has its own set of landslides as well... We've got a small project (with @britgeosurvey.bsky.social) looking at some of these landslide-road interactions and disruptions to transport on a national scale.
Expertly led by @GlacierHazards, and with a wide team of authors from around the world, this work has pulled together an exceptional range of data to build an understanding of how and why this multihazard cascade occurred – and some clues as to how we might reduce future risk.
January 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Expertly led by @GlacierHazards, and with a wide team of authors from around the world, this work has pulled together an exceptional range of data to build an understanding of how and why this multihazard cascade occurred – and some clues as to how we might reduce future risk.
This GLOF was initiated by the failure of a lateral moraine into a part of the lake that didn’t even exist 10 years ago. The resulting flood swept downstream – all the way across the border to Bangladesh – causing widespread destruction and leaving over 100 dead and missing.
January 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This GLOF was initiated by the failure of a lateral moraine into a part of the lake that didn’t even exist 10 years ago. The resulting flood swept downstream – all the way across the border to Bangladesh – causing widespread destruction and leaving over 100 dead and missing.
Our paper on the 2023 S. Lhonak GLOF & multihazard cascade, out today in Science!
This ‘natural’ hazard had the fingerprints of human activity all over it: climate change, glacier retreat, permafrost degradation, and hydropower dam breach.
Read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
This ‘natural’ hazard had the fingerprints of human activity all over it: climate change, glacier retreat, permafrost degradation, and hydropower dam breach.
Read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
January 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Our paper on the 2023 S. Lhonak GLOF & multihazard cascade, out today in Science!
This ‘natural’ hazard had the fingerprints of human activity all over it: climate change, glacier retreat, permafrost degradation, and hydropower dam breach.
Read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
This ‘natural’ hazard had the fingerprints of human activity all over it: climate change, glacier retreat, permafrost degradation, and hydropower dam breach.
Read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
New paper led by Alex Dunant on innovative strategies for multihazard modelling!
The approach uses a computationally efficient network-based model to simulate cascading interactions between hazards (e.g. earthquake-landslide) and the resulting impacts.
Read more here: doi.org/10.5194/nhes...
The approach uses a computationally efficient network-based model to simulate cascading interactions between hazards (e.g. earthquake-landslide) and the resulting impacts.
Read more here: doi.org/10.5194/nhes...
January 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
New paper led by Alex Dunant on innovative strategies for multihazard modelling!
The approach uses a computationally efficient network-based model to simulate cascading interactions between hazards (e.g. earthquake-landslide) and the resulting impacts.
Read more here: doi.org/10.5194/nhes...
The approach uses a computationally efficient network-based model to simulate cascading interactions between hazards (e.g. earthquake-landslide) and the resulting impacts.
Read more here: doi.org/10.5194/nhes...