Jonathan Kinghorn
In Focus
Following are some recent blogs:
So, What Is a Central American Gyre?
June 16, 2022
Compromised Dams Are Accidents Waiting to Happen
June 2, 2022
The Joplin Tornado Was So Bad It Led to Some Good
May 26, 2022
Reducing Australian Bushfire Risk with Traditional Practices
April 28, 2022
Increasing Urban “Sponginess” to Mitigate Flooding
April 26, 2022
Five Favorite In Focus Blogs
March 7, 2022
How Great Was the Great Storm That Struck Southern England in 1703?
December 7, 2021
Massachusetts' Largest Earthquake Caused Alarm in 1755 and Should Today
November 18, 2021
An Intraplate Earthquake Devastated the Swiss City of Basel in 1356
October 18, 2021
9/11, Another Date Which Will Live in Infamy
September 9, 2021
Earthquakes in London? Really!
February 8, 2021
Urban Tornadoes Can Be the Most Destructive
March 16, 2020
Why Last Year's Earthquake in Sulawesi Was So Destructive
September 30, 2019
How a Ridiculed Theory of Earth's Movements Gained Ground
September 5, 2019
Victorian Crowdsourcing and the First Weather Forecasts
August 1, 2019
Developing Your Own View of Risk with Model Builder
July 8, 2019
Fighting Storm Surge in Southern Maine
June 27, 2019
Six of the Best to Mark AIR's 500th Blog Post
June 13, 2019
Did You Know There's More than One Type of Tornado?
June 6, 2019
Why Dam Safety Is a Cause for Concern
May 30, 2019
Why AIR Conducts Post-Catastrophe Damage Surveys
May 23, 2019
Fighting Wildfire with Fire and Fuel Reduction
April 25, 2019
The Philippines Is Shaking—Again
April 23, 2019
Why Changing Hurricane Michael to Category 5 Matters
April 22, 2019
It’s Tornado Time Again
April 4, 2019
Can Sports Fans Trigger Earthquakes?
April 1, 2019
Are You Effectively Managing Your Crop Risk in Canada?
February 21, 2019
What Is Catastrophe Modeling and How Does It Work?
February 14, 2019
How Catastrophe Models Help Cities Boost Resilience
November 15, 2018
Why Storm Surge Was So Devastating for Tacloban
November 8, 2018
The Hayward Fault and the Other “Big One”
October 22, 2018
With Wildfire, Big Doesn't Necessarily Mean Costly
August 13, 2018
Why Ellicott City Experiences Flash Floods
June 4, 2018
Why Hilal Was a Game-Changing Severe Thunderstorm
May 29, 2018
Hurricane Harvey and the Flood Protection Gap
April 30, 2018
3 New Names and the Brown Ocean Effect
April 26, 2018
Meet the Hurricanes of 2018—Or at Least, Their Names
April 12, 2018
When Soils Turn to Soup and Structures Slant
February 22, 2018
Why Coastal Defenses are Never One and Done
February 1, 2018
What Does Bombogenesis Do to a Winter Storm?
January 18, 2018
How New York City is Boosting its Flood Resilience after Sandy
October 30, 2017
Japanese Researchers Penetrate the Eye of Typhoon Lan
October 23, 2017
The Ever-Shrinking Cone of Uncertainty
August 28, 2017
Are You Ready for Another Hurricane Andrew?
August 24, 2017
Improving Resilience in Peru, One Catastrophe at a Time
August 15, 2017
How Long Does It Take to Recover from an Earthquake?
April 24, 2017
3 Factors That Make Flooding in South America Worse
April 13, 2017
How a Big Snowpack Boosts Flood Risk
March 30, 2017
This Time We Were Lucky: The Oroville Dam Emergency
February 15, 2017
Floods in Thailand Are Regular Natural Disasters
December 12, 2016
How Can the Same Earthquake Be M7.4 and M6.9?
December 5, 2016
Rivers of Rain in the Sky
October 3, 2016
The Great Fire of London and Urban Conflagration Risk
September 8, 2016
Storm Surge in the Spotlight
July 25, 2016
A Blast from the Past: Hail Cannon
April 11, 2016
Arrest May Have Expedited Brussels Bombings
March 24, 2016
Mind the Gap: Opportunities for the Insurance Industry
March 7, 2016
Helping Children Envision Themselves as Engineers
February 22, 2016
Flood Defenses: One Size Does Not Fit All Events
February 1, 2016
Earthquake-Protective Desks for Bhutan’s Schools
December 21, 2015
Flooding in Chennai: A Disaster Waiting to Happen
December 7, 2015
Flood Risk in Brazil
October 29, 2015
Are Near-Term Hurricane Catalogs Better?
October 19, 2015
What Might Major Historical U.S. Hurricanes Cost Now?
October 1, 2015
Five Countries Most Frequently Hit by Natural Disasters
September 24, 2015
Monte Carlo or Bust!
September 10, 2015
What on Earth Is a Dropsonde?
August 21, 2015
Learning to Live with Floodwater
July 20, 2015
The Growing Risk Associated With Dam Failure
June 1, 2015
Toward an Open Global Earthquake Model
February 4, 2015
Who Will Pay for the Next Great California Earthquake?
March 21, 2014
Welcome to In Focus!
February 24, 2014