Print Email Facebook Twitter Brief communication: Loss of life due to Hurricane Harvey Title Brief communication: Loss of life due to Hurricane Harvey Author Jonkman, Sebastiaan N. (TU Delft Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk) Godfroy, Maartje (TU Delft Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk) Sebastian, Antonia (TU Delft Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk; Rice University) Kolen, B. (TU Delft Safety and Security Science; HKV Consultants) Date 2018 Abstract 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 (n = 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. Subject OA-Fund TU Delft To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ff8d6ac4-9de9-49d2-b073-63baecd884e7 DOI https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-1073-2018 ISSN 1561-8633 Source Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 18, 1073-1078 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2018 Sebastiaan N. Jonkman, Maartje Godfroy, Antonia Sebastian, B. Kolen Files PDF nhess_18_1073_2018.pdf 5.97 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:ff8d6ac4-9de9-49d2-b073-63baecd884e7/datastream/OBJ/view