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How Did the Global Risk Report Become Existential?
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With each new edition – and this year’s edition is the fifteenth, inevitably, one first turns to the opening page of the report, to discover…
Risk Modeling for the Future
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) has celebrated its 50th year at its annual meeting in Davos. Increasingly the business/political nexus has…
Spread of the New Coronavirus in the Year of the...
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When the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was first identified as a coronavirus in 2012, the case fatality rate was very high at 35…
2018 USGS Hazard Map Updates: Is RMS Revising th...
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In March 2018, RMS hosted the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) workshop at our Newark headquarters in California to discuss the interim updates…
New Lethal Coronavirus In China
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In this the centennial year of the great 1918 pandemic, I was invited to speak at a special symposium on emerging infectious diseases at the…
Haiti Earthquake: Ten Years On
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This week marks the tenth anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. The magnitude 7.0 event ruptured a thrust fault associated with…
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