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June
The Sendai World Conference on Disaster Risk Red...
The height reached by the tsunami from the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake is marked on the wall of the arrivals hall at Sendai airport. This…
New Risks in Our Interconnected World
Heraclitus taught us more than 2,500 years ago that the only constant is change. And one of the biggest changes in our lifetime is that…
Redefining the Global Terrorism Threat Landscape
The last six months have witnessed significant developments within the global terrorism landscape. This includes the persistent threat of the…
El Niño in 2015: Record-setting Conditions Antic...
Today the insurance industry gears up for the start of another hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin. Similar to 2014, most forecasting…
May
“San Andreas” – The Scientific Reality
San Andreas—a Hollywood action-adventure film set in California amid not one, but two magnitude 9+ earthquakes in quick succession and the…
The 1960 Tele-tsunami: Don’t Forget the Far Field
On May 22, 1960 the most powerful earthquake ever recorded struck approximately 100 miles off the coast of southern Chile. The 9.5 Mw event…
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