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Executive editors: Animesh Gain, Margreth Keiler, Gregor C. Leckebusch, Bruce D. Malamud, Paolo Tarolli & Uwe Ulbrich
eISSN: NHESS 1684-9981, NHESSD 2195-9269

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) is a not-for-profit interdisciplinary and international journal dedicated to the public discussion and open-access publication of high-quality studies and original research on natural hazards and their consequences. Embracing a holistic Earth system science approach, NHESS serves a wide and diverse community of research scientists, practitioners, and decision makers concerned with detection of natural hazards, monitoring and modelling, vulnerability and risk assessment, and the design and implementation of mitigation and adaptation strategies, including economical, societal, and educational aspects.

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News

13 Mar 2025 New agreement between California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications

We are delighted to announce a new agreement between the California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications. The University of California will cover 50% of article processing charges (APCs) for manuscripts affiliated with any of their research units. Read more.

13 Mar 2025 New agreement between California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications

We are delighted to announce a new agreement between the California Digital Library and Copernicus Publications. The University of California will cover 50% of article processing charges (APCs) for manuscripts affiliated with any of their research units. Read more.

10 Feb 2025 Thank you to all our referees in 2024!

A big thank you to all referees for their volunteer work in providing fair, thorough, and constructive peer-review reports! Through their invaluable contribution our interactive open-access journals maintain their high scientific standards and their ongoing success.

10 Feb 2025 Thank you to all our referees in 2024!

A big thank you to all referees for their volunteer work in providing fair, thorough, and constructive peer-review reports! Through their invaluable contribution our interactive open-access journals maintain their high scientific standards and their ongoing success.

05 Feb 2025 Copernicus Publications and all journals left Twitter

The Copernicus Twitter account as well as all Twitter accounts of journals published by us have been deactivated. There will be no automatic feeds of newly posted preprints or published journal articles anymore, we do not actively tweet, and the status informs that the accounts are no longer maintained. Twitter is no longer linked from the journal websites or in the share section of the preprint or journal article HTML pages.

05 Feb 2025 Copernicus Publications and all journals left Twitter

The Copernicus Twitter account as well as all Twitter accounts of journals published by us have been deactivated. There will be no automatic feeds of newly posted preprints or published journal articles anymore, we do not actively tweet, and the status informs that the accounts are no longer maintained. Twitter is no longer linked from the journal websites or in the share section of the preprint or journal article HTML pages.

Recent papers

08 Oct 2025
Could seismo-volcanic catalogs be improved or created using weakly supervised approaches with pre-trained systems?
Manuel Titos, Carmen Benítez, Luca D'Auria, Milad Kowsari, and Jesús Miguel Ibáñez
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 3827–3851, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-3827-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-3827-2025, 2025
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08 Oct 2025
Insights into tectonic zonation models from the clustering analysis of seismicity in southern and south-eastern Spain
David Montiel-López, Antonella Peresan, Elisa Varini, and Sergio Molina
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 3853–3878, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-3853-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-3853-2025, 2025
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07 Oct 2025
The effect of community resilience and disaster risk management cycle stages on morbi-mortality following floods: an empirical assessment
Raquel Guimaraes, Reinhard Mechler, Stefan Velev, and Dipesh Chapagain
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 3803–3826, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-3803-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-3803-2025, 2025
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06 Oct 2025
Predictive understanding of socioeconomic flood impact in data-scarce regions based on channel properties and storm characteristics: application in High Mountain Asia (HMA)
Mariam Khanam, Giulia Sofia, Wilmalis Rodriguez, Efthymios I. Nikolopoulos, Binghao Lu, Dongjin Song, and Emmanouil N. Anagnostou
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 3759–3778, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-3759-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-3759-2025, 2025
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06 Oct 2025
Assessing economic impacts of future GLOFs in Nepal's Everest region under different SSP scenarios using three-dimensional simulations
Wilhelm Furian and Tobias Sauter
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 3779–3802, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-3779-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-3779-2025, 2025
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Highlight articles

01 Oct 2025
Insights from hailstorm track analysis in European climate change simulations
Killian P. Brennan, Iris Thurnherr, Michael Sprenger, and Heini Wernli
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 3693–3712, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-3693-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-3693-2025, 2025
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16 Sep 2025
The 1538 eruption at the Campi Flegrei resurgent caldera: implications for future unrest and eruptive scenarios
Giuseppe Rolandi, Claudia Troise, Marco Sacchi, Massimo Di Lascio, and Giuseppe De Natale
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 3421–3453, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-3421-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-3421-2025, 2025
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10 Sep 2025
Severe beach erosion induced by shoreline deformation after a large-scale reclamation project for the Samcheok liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in South Korea
Changbin Lim, Tae Min Lim, and Jung-Lyul Lee
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 3239–3255, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-3239-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-3239-2025, 2025
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05 Sep 2025
Failure of Marmolada Glacier (Dolomites, Italy) in 2022: data-based back analysis of possible collapse mechanisms
Roberto Giovanni Francese, Roberto Valentino, Wilfried Haeberli, Aldino Bondesan, Massimo Giorgi, Stefano Picotti, Franco Pettenati, Denis Sandron, Gianni Ramponi, and Mauro Valt
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 3027–3053, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-3027-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-3027-2025, 2025
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29 Aug 2025
Turning regret into future disaster preparedness with no regrets
Joy Ommer, Milan Kalas, Jessica Neumann, Sophie Blackburn, and Hannah L. Cloke
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 2929–2938, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-2929-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-2929-2025, 2025
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Notice on the current situation in Ukraine

To show our support for Ukraine, all fees for papers from authors (first or corresponding authors) affiliated to Ukrainian institutions are automatically waived, regardless if these papers are co-authored by scientists affiliated to Russian and/or Belarusian institutions. The only exception will be if the corresponding author or first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) are from a Russian and/or Belarusian institution, in that case the APCs are not waived.

In accordance with current European restrictions, Copernicus Publications does not step into business relations with and issue APC-invoices (articles processing charges) to Russian and Belarusian institutions. The peer-review process and scientific exchange of our journals including preprint posting is not affected. However, these restrictions require that the first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) has an affiliation and invoice address outside Russia or Belarus.