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January
How Did the Global Risk Report Become Existential?
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
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...
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...
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
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
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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