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We sincerely thank authors for their contribution and reviewers for their pain-staking reviews to improve quality of papers in this issue. Constant help and advice from Tad Murty & Thomas Glade, editors of Natural Hazards, and Preetha Arulmohan & Petra van Steenbergen of Springer Journal Editorial Office are thankfully acknowledged.

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  1. Arun Kumar

    Present address: Department of Earth Sciences, Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6, Canada

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  1. Center for Petroleum and Minerals, Research Institute, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia

    Arun Kumar

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

    Ioan Nistor

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Kumar, A., Nistor, I. Guest editorial: Paleotsunami. Nat Hazards 63, 1–3 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-011-9967-5

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