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A Look Back at the 2011 Great East Japan (Tohoku...
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Major earthquake disasters are fortunately rare, but when they happen, it is an opportunity to learn and continue to push the boundaries of…
The Storm Surge and the Tsunami
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The core idea behind catastrophe modeling is that the architecture of risk quantification is the same whatever the peril. While a hurricane is…
The Problem of Real and Unreal Tsunamis
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Indonesia was beset by disasters in 2018, including two high casualty local tsunamis: in coastal western Sulawesi – impacting the city of Palu…
De-risking the City
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I am in Wellington, New Zealand, looking out from a rainy hotel window high over the city, admiring the older wooden houses on the forested…
The Lessons From “Last Year’s” Catastrophes
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Catastrophe modeling remains a work in progress. With each upgrade we aim to build a better model, employing expanded data sets for hazard…
How to Maintain Awareness of Tsunami Risk
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Today is World Tsunami Awareness Day — designated by the United Nations General Assembly, and according to the United Nations Office for…
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