Topical Collection on "Prevention and Treatment of Natural Disasters: Examples in the Mediterranean Sea and the Volcanic Area of the Naples Bay (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy)"

A topical collection of Prevention and Treatment of Natural Disasters (PTND) (E-ISSN: 2753-7544).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024

Collection Editors:

Dr. Gemma Aiello
Istituto di Scienze Marine, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Sezione Secondaria di Napoli, 80133 Naples, Italy
Research Interests: seismic stratigraphy; sedimentology; marine geology and geophysics; geological mapping; basin analysis

Dr. Mauro Caccavale
Istituto di Scienze Marine, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Sezione Secondaria di Napoli, 80133 Naples, Italy
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Vesuviano, Via Diocleziano, 80128 Napoli, Italy
Research Interests: seismics; seismology; earthquake engineering; exploration geophysics; earthquake; geology; tectonics; 3d modeling; active tectonics; slope stability

Topical Collection Information:

Dear Colleagues,

Marine geohazards are a group of underwater phenomena that can pose a threat to humans and the marine environment. These hazards are controlled by earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, and submarine mass movements. The seabed of the Mediterranean Sea displays evidence of mass movements. Rivers from mountain streams cause unstable sea beds. The submarine canyons trigger submarine landslides over the sea bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. Geological processes associated with plate boundaries and active faulting cause marine hazardous events in the Mediterranean. Steep and unstable continental slopes on the continental margins of the Mediterranean have been controlled by the subduction of the African plate below the Eurasian Plate. In this topical collection, we invite papers providing significant issues on geological hazards in significant areas of the Mediterranean Sea, including the active volcanic area of the Bay of Naples. Significant geological processes controlling hazards will include earthquakes, submarine landslides, marine tephra, PDCs, tsunamis, gas seepages, and anthropogenic impacts.

Dr. Gemma Aiello
Dr. Mauro Caccavale
Collection Editors

Keywords:

Natural disasters
Geological hazard
Mediterranean sea
Bay of Naples
Earthquakes
Submarine landslides
Marine tephra
Pyroclastic density currents (PDC)
Tsunami
Gas seepages
Anthropogenic impacts

Manuscript Submission Information:

Please visit the Submissions Guidelines page before submitting a manuscript. Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Manuscripts should be submitted online through the online manuscript submission and editorial system. Additionally, please include a cover letter specifying that the manuscript is intended for the Topical Collection "Prevention and Treatment of Natural Disasters: Examples in the Mediterranean Sea and the Volcanic Area of the Naples Bay (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy)" when submitting it online. Manuscripts can be submitted until the submission deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal and will be listed together on the Topical Collection website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract can be sent to the Editorial Office ptnd@ukscip.com for announcement on this website.

The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 600 USD. Authors who are unable to cover this cost or those who are invited to submit papers may be eligible for discounts or waivers.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process.

Published Papers:

This Topical Collection is now open for submission.