Earthquake
Discover the latest commentary on major earthquakes around the globe together with new insights on earthquake risk modeling.
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Disaster Risk Reduction: Catastrophe Modeling Ta...
The UN meeting room at the Palais de Nations in Geneva is oval shaped and more than 100 feet long with curved desks arranged in a series of “U…
Building Better Models Through Collaboration
To calibrate and validate their models, catastrophe modeling firms ideally have access to large amounts of high-quality, high-resolution…
The Curious Story of the “Epicenter”
The word epicenter was coined in the mid-19th century to mean the point at the surface above the source of an earthquake. At the time,…
Twenty Years After Northridge: a Seismic Blink, ...
January 17, 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the M6.7 Northridge, California Earthquake, which caused the largest U.S. earthquake insurance…
Living in Earthquake Country
RMS maintains a broad suite of catastrophe models to manage global earthquake risk. In my day-to-day work, I think about our current…
Uncertainty and Unknown Unknowns
At today’s inaugural ‘Catastrophe Risk Management & Modelling Australasia 2013’ in Sydney, the focus is on model uncertainty, unknown…
