Earthquake and Multi-Hazard Resilience: Community-Level Insights and AI/ML Applications
A special issue of Infrastructures (ISSN 2412-3811).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 1323
Special Issue Editors
Interests: earthquake engineering; fragility modeling; multi-hazard simulation; community-scale resilience; AI/ML in hazard modeling
Interests: community resilience modeling; earthquake engineering; performance-based design; structural systems; hazard simulation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The frequency and intensity of natural hazards—including earthquakes, tsunamis, and fire following earthquakes—pose critical challenges to infrastructure and community resilience. In light of these risks, the integration of advanced modeling tools, community-scale simulations, and data-driven approaches has become essential for informed decision-making and risk reduction. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are transforming the field by enabling high-resolution fragility modeling, functional recovery analysis, and optimization of mitigation strategies under complex, multi-hazard conditions.
This Special Issue focuses on advancing knowledge and applications in earthquake engineering and multi-hazard resilience, particularly at the community level. Contributions that span structure-, community-, and regional-level analysis are welcome, including those related to the seismic performance of buildings, fragility and loss modeling, post-disaster functionality, and interdependencies across systems.
We especially encourage submissions that leverage AI/ML frameworks, incorporate multi-event sequences, or bridge the gap between structural response and socio-technical resilience planning. The scope of this issue aligns with the journal Infrastructures, which emphasizes integrated, data-informed, and forward-looking research for infrastructure systems under stress from natural and technological hazards.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Earthquake and multi-hazard fragility modeling;
- Functional recovery and post-disaster dislocation analysis;
- Cascading and sequential hazard events (e.g., earthquake–tsunami and EQ–fire);
- AI/ML-enhanced modeling and decision-support systems;
- Simulation-based optimization for retrofitting strategies;
- Community- and regional-level risk assessment and resilience planning;
- Infrastructure interdependencies and system-of-systems modeling;
- Digital twins and sensing technologies for structural health monitoring;
- Open-source tools and computational frameworks for resilience;
- Integration of physical, social, and economic data in hazard-informed design.
We invite original research articles, literature review papers, and case studies that address the above themes. Contributions from interdisciplinary teams and applications to real-world case studies are particularly encouraged.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Dr. Mojtaba Harati
Prof. Dr. John W. van de Lindt
Dr. Maria Koliou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- earthquake engineering
- multi-hazard resilience
- AI/ML applications
- community resilience
- fragility modeling
- functional recovery
- cascading events
- digital twins
- post-disaster modeling
- structural retrofitting
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