Natural Catastrophe Risk
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When Did Windstorms Become So Wet?
Looking back to the start of the European windstorm season, my colleague Brian Owens pondered whether the insurance industry would experience …
How Does Southern Europe Weather the Storm?
The 2013-14 European winter storm season has been pretty active so far. Early in the season, Windstorm Christian raced across northern Europe…
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…
2013/2014 Winter Storm Season in Europe
This winter storm season has seen the most severe sequence of storms since 1990. Another windstorm to affect the U.K., Windstorm Christina,…
The Dangerous City of Tacloban
The city of Tacloban, on the island of Leyte, is the largest city in the eastern Visayas region of the central Philippines. In a 2010 survey…
Life Safety on a Cat 5 Coastline
Many of the thousands of lives lost in Super Typhoon Haiyan could have been saved if a proper storm surge forecast had been provided, and if…
