Constance Chua

 
 
Name Constance Chua
Academic position Research Fellow
International Research Institute of Disaster Science
Education
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • BSc(Hons)in Hazard and Disaster Management, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
  • BA in Geography and Political Science, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Email constance.chua.ting.a3[@]tohoku.ac.jp
Research interests Extreme sea level events, Disaster risk management, Tsunami impacts on critical infrastructure
Awards and prizes
  • Nanyang Research Scholarship
  • Sir Julius von Haast Prize, University of Canterbury
Citations index
Peer-reviewed journals and book chapters
  1. Chua, C. T., Miki, Y., Suppasri, A., Jenkins, S. F., Lallemant, D., Imamura, F., and Switzer, A. (2026) Approaches and challenges in estimating economic loss from tsunami damage models. In Chua C.T., Wang, H., Li, Q. (Eds), Advancements in coastal hazards research in Asia: Identifying hazards, managing risk. Singapore: Springer Singapore (in press).
  2. Miki, Y., Chua, C. T., Suppasri, A., Cheng, A. C., Iwasaki, T., Shinozuka, Y., Ogawa, T. & Imamura, F. (2025). A proposed approach towards minimizing basis risk in tsunami parametric insurance scheme. npj Natural Hazards, 2(1), 67.
  3. Heidarzadeh, M., Gusman, A. R., Mulia, I. E., Chua, C. T., & Suppasri, A. (2025). Tsunami hazards and risks from the Philippine Trench: The cases of 2012 and 2023 Mw 7.6 tsunamigenic earthquakes. Ocean Engineering, 329, 120985.
  4. Chua, C. T., Otake, T., Li, T., Cheng, A. C., Qiu, Q., Li, L., Suppasri, A., Imamura, F., & Switzer, A. D. (2024). An approach to assessing tsunami risk to the global port network under rising sea levels. npj Natural Hazards, 1(1), 1-13.
  5. Qiu, Q., Li, L., Yang, X., Lin, J., & Chua, C. T. (2024). Morphological differences across the Shumagin-Semidi fault segments control slip behaviors and tsunami genesis in the Aleutian-Alaska subduction zone. Quaternary Science Advances, 15, 100215.
  6. Cheng, A. C., Suppasri, A., Heidarzadeh, M., Adriano, B., Chua, C. T., & Imamura, F. (2023). Tsunami wave characteristics in Sendai Bay, Japan, following the 2016 Mw 6.9 Fukushima earthquake. Ocean Engineering, 287, 115676.
  7. Ornthammarath, T., Chua, C. T., Suppasri, A., & Foytong, P. (2022). Seismic damage and comparison of fragility functions of public and residential buildings damaged by the 2014 Mae Lao (Northern Thailand) earthquake. Earthquake Spectra, 87552930221131830.
  8. Suppasri, A., Nishida, T., Pakoksung, K., Cheng, A. C., Chua, C. T., Iwasaki, T., ... & Imamura, F. (2022). Quantifying tsunami impact on industrial facilities and production capacity in ports: An application to Sendai Port, Japan. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 78, 103141.
  9. Chua, C. T., Switzer, A. D., Suppasri, A., Li, L., Pakoksung, K., Lallemant, D., ... & Winspear, N. (2021). Tsunami damage to ports: cataloguing damage to create fragility functions from the 2011 Tohoku event. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 21(6), 1887-1908.
  10. Otake, T., Chua, C. T., Suppasri, A., & Imamura, F. (2020). Justification of possible casualty-reduction countermeasures based on global tsunami hazard assessment for tsunami-prone regions over the past 400 years. Journal of Disaster Research, 15(4), 490-502.
  11. Suppasri, A., Pakoksung, K., Charvet, I., Chua, C. T., Takahashi, N., Ornthammarath, T., ... & Imamura, F. (2019). Load-resistance analysis: an alternative approach to tsunami damage assessment applied to the 2011 Great East Japan tsunami. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 19(8), 1807-1822.
  12. Gumert, M. D., Tan, A. W. Y., Luncz, L. V., Chua, C. T., Kulik, L., Switzer, A. D., ... & Malaivijitnond, S. (2019). Prevalence of tool behaviour is associated with pelage phenotype in intraspecific hybrid long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis aurea× M. f. fascicularis). Behaviour, 156(11), 1083-1125.
  13. Li, L., Yang, J., Lin, C. Y., Chua, C. T., Wang, Y., Zhao, K., ... & Peng, D. (2018). Field survey of Typhoon Hato (2017) and a comparison with storm surge modeling in Macau. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 18(12), 3167-3178.
Recent presentations and conferences
  1. Chua, C. T., Li, L., Miki, Y., Mukaida, Y., Hao, B., Suppasri, A. and Imamura, F. (2026, May 28) Systemic economic impacts of tsunami-induced port disruption: An illustrative case-study from a Manila Trench tsunami. Oral presentation at the JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2026, Chiba, Japan.ami
  2. Chua, C. T., Syamsidik, Renaldi, T.A., Mukaida, Y., Suappsri, A. and Imamura, F. (2025, November 20) A proposed approach towards developing continuous coastal elevation data for tsunami-prone areas in Indonesia. Oral presentation at the Asian Tsunami Workshop 2025, Tokyo, Japan.
  3. Chua, C. T.，Suppasri, A., Li, L, Li, T., Zhang, Y., Miki, Y., Imamura, F. (2025, August 1) Tsunami Risk to Coastal Cities Along the South China Sea Basin in Light of Rising Sea Levels. Oral presentation at the AOGS 22nd Annual Meeting, Singapore.
  4. Chua, C. T. (2025, February 27) Tsunami risk to critical infrastructure: Research challenges and potential. Invited presentation at the UNESCO’s first Ocean Decade International Coastal Cities Conference.
  5. Chua, C.T., Suppasri, A., Cheng, A.C., Kitamura, M., Gianluca, P., Alexander, D. Imamura, F. (2023, December) Tsunami vulnerability assessment of critical infrastructure: A case-study of Java, Indonesia. Poster presentation at the AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, United States.
  6. Chua, C. T., Otake, T., Watanabe, M., Suppasri, A., Imamura, F., Switzer, A. D. (2023, August 3) Tsunami impacts on the global port network: A case-study of Manila Trench in light of rising sea levels. Oral presentation at the AOGS 20th Annual Meeting, Singapore. 
  7. Chua, C. T., Pakoksung, K., Suppasri, A., Switzer, A.D. (2022, December 8)Tsunami flow parameters influencing port damage: A case-study of the 2011 Tohoku tsunami. Oral presentation at 37th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Sydney, Australia.
  8. Chua, C. T. (2022, November 30) Tsunami impacts on critical infrastructure: Research gaps and challenges. Keynote presentation at 17th APRU Multi-Hazards Symposium, Bangkok, Thailand.
Memberships
  • AOGS Coastal Zone Risk Mitigation and Management Working Group