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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,…
A Tale of Two Storms
“Horror and confusion seized upon all, whether on shore or at sea: no pen can describe it; no tongue can express it; no thought conceive it…
A Debate About The Numbers
It depends on who you ask. The insurance, real estate, and banking industries are lobbying forcefully for a renewal, citing the difficulty of…
Rumbling Below the Waves
Which of the following would you say has the shortest odds? a) Someone getting injured by a firework b) A meteor landing on a house c)…
Social Change is Outperforming Medical Science
We are in the middle of a health awareness revolution. Attitudes to fitness, health, diet, and social risk factors are changing more rapidly…