Dear Colleagues, Cascading disasters, which follow from an initial trigger to a range of disaster impacts, can contribute a significant part of the loss caused by any natural hazard event, and become as catastrophic as the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, in the Sichuan Province of China, provides another example. This disaster led to over 69,000 deaths, 18,000 missing people, and 374,000 ...