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The Journey to Sendai and Beyond
Sendai is a city of a million people 2 hours north of Tokyo on the Shinkansen bullet train. From March 14-17, 2015 it will attract seven…
Rising Storm Surge Losses in the U.S. Northeast
A recent article in Nature Communications, picked up by the BBC, identified a record mean sea-level rise of 5” (127mm) along the coastline…
Fighting Emerging Pandemics With Catastrophe Bonds
When a fire breaks out in a city, there needs to be a prompt firefighting response to contain the fire and prevent it from spreading. The…
How Should Man-made Earthquakes be Included in E...
Oklahoma, Colorado, and Texas have all experienced unusually large earthquakes in the past few years and more earthquakes over magnitude 3…
Terrorism Modeling 101
Acts of terror can result in wide ranges of potential damage and the financial repercussions can threaten an insurer’s solvency. Terrorism…
Managing Cyber Catastrophes With Catastrophe Models
My colleague Andrew Coburn recently co-authored an article on Cyber Risk with Simon Ruffle and Sarah Pryor, both researchers at Cambridge…