**Author details**

Carmen Paz Castro1 , Juan Pablo Sarmiento2 and Claudio Garuti3\*

\*Address all correspondence to: claudiogaruti@fulcrum.cl

1 Department of Geography, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

2 Extreme Events Institute, Florida International University (FIU), Miami, USA

3 Fulcrum Engineering Ltd. (Decision making engineering), Santiago, Chile

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**Author details**

Carmen Paz Castro1

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1 Department of Geography, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

2 Extreme Events Institute, Florida International University (FIU), Miami, USA

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3 Fulcrum Engineering Ltd. (Decision making engineering), Santiago, Chile

\*Address all correspondence to: claudiogaruti@fulcrum.cl

and Claudio Garuti3\*

