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Hurricanes are one of America’s most expensive natural disaster [47]. Between 1970 and 2016, the U.S. sustained seven of the world’s 10 most expensive hurricane due to this the insurance company face huge losses for next five years.

In order to recognize the unavoidable interdependencies between vital infrastructure structures in the world, the quantification of vulnerability for populations prone to natural disasters (such as hurricanes) is important [70]. The vital infrastructure networks have effects on the environmental and economic stability of the nation because of their breakdown. Examples include communication networks, transport systems, water delivery schemes, etc. While interdependencies will boost the operating efficiencies of critical infrastructure networks, the network instability should be increased [68]. Such rise in device instability is triggered by cascade malfunction phenomena. Figure 1.18 provides an example of the interdependencies that typically occur inside a computational setting and thus involve modeling.

Figure 1.18 Framework of critical system modeling.

To measure the vulnerability of hurricane-prone communities where a computational simulator models each vital structure, for various types of hazards, similar diagrams can be drawn.