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Creating an Open Standard for Risk Data With Ris...
The Risk Data Open Standard (RDOS) Steering Committee that guides and oversees this standard was busy in 2019 working to shape the RDOS, to…
Clues on the Coronavirus Contagion
Epidemiologists are disease detectives. The investigative insights of a forensic epidemiologist are exemplified by Sherlock Holmes, whose…
How Did the Global Risk Report Become Existential?
With each new edition – and this year’s edition is the fifteenth, inevitably, one first turns to the opening page of the report, to discover…
Risk Modeling for the Future
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has celebrated its 50th year at its annual meeting in Davos. Increasingly the business/political nexus has…
Spread of the New Coronavirus in the Year of the...
When the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was first identified as a coronavirus in 2012, the case fatality rate was very high at 35…
2018 USGS Hazard Map Updates: Is RMS Revising th...
In March 2018, RMS hosted the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) workshop at our Newark headquarters in California to discuss the interim updates…