135823 20260217205542.0 doi 10.1007/s11069-024-06708-9 sideral 138860 ART-2024-138860 eng Sevil, Jorge (orcid)0000-0002-0068-4532 Temporal variability of sinkhole hazard illustrated in the western shore of the Dead Sea 2024 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted The growing economic and societal damage caused by sinkhole activity worldwide requires the development of scientifically sound sinkhole hazard assessment approaches. Currently, there is a striking paucity of quantitative sinkhole hazard studies largely related to the incompleteness of sinkhole inventories and the lack of chronological data. Moreover, the probability of occurrence of sinkholes (i.e., sinkhole hazard) is commonly considered as a steady variable, a concept that may lead to significant hazard over- or under-estimates. The extraordinarily high frequency of sinkhole occurrence of the studied sector of the western shore of the Dead Sea has allowed us to explore for the first time the potential temporal variability of sinkhole hazard parameters. Here, we produced six multi-temporal sinkhole inventories with morphometric data between 2005 and 2021 using remote-sensed imagery. The frequency-size relationships generated for successive time intervals with a total of 667 new sinkholes reveal substantial temporal changes in the sinkhole hazard components (i.e., frequency and size). Moreover, the work illustrates that spatial redundancy (sinkholes nested within or intersecting pre-existing ones) can lead to significant hazard overestimates if not considered, especially in areas with high sinkhole density and clustering. This work discusses the limitations of some widely used methods and concepts for sinkhole hazard assessment and illustrates the advantages of detailed multi-temporal mapping for assessing frequency-size relationships and their temporal trends. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/AEI/PID2021-123189NB-I00 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PRE2018-084240 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es 3.7 2024 GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY 60 / 258 = 0.233 2024 Q1 T1 WATER RESOURCES 34 / 132 = 0.258 2024 Q2 T1 METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES 37 / 111 = 0.333 2024 Q2 T2 0.942 2024 Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) 2024 Q1 Water Science and Technology 2024 Q1 Atmospheric Science 2024 Q2 7.8 2024 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Gutiérrez, Francisco Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-5407-940X 2000 427 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ciencias de la Tierra Área Geodinámica Externa 120 (2024), 12663–12677 Nat. hazards NATURAL HAZARDS 0921-030X 6494194 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/135823/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1597248 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/135823/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:135823 articulos driver 2026-02-17-20:36:53 ARTICLE