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Beginning in summer 2022, the Next Generation Models (NGM) will become AIR’s default view of risk

It’s time to test your topical knowledge concerning hurricanes, typhoons, and other phenomena!

The west Coast of Canada is no stranger to wet weather.

In a recent webinar series, AIR experts discussed some pressing issues with guests from the industry, including the liability-related risks of climate change.

A new AIR white paper provides an overview of the main scientific developments in earthquake ground shaking hazard science.

November in Tuscany means heavy storms and intense rainfall—and the potential for flooding.

Japan lies in one of the world’s most seismically active regions, with significant earthquakes each century.

Hurricane Matthew, the 2016 Atlantic season’s most powerful hurricane, made four landfalls, the last as a U.S. Category 1 storm.

Flooding remains a perennial problem during summer, along China’s major rivers, and in coastal provinces.

More than a century of seismological observations clearly indicate that all earthquakes have aftershocks.

Lahars hit the headlines when a volcano on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent erupted, but what are they?

We all understand that a super typhoon is stronger than a regular typhoon, but when does it become one?

On June 23, 2001, a massive Mw 8.4 subduction zone earthquake struck Peru’s southern coast near Arequipa.

May 31 is designated National Dam Safety Awareness Day in the U.S. to promote best practices.

Disaster resilience is improved by the iterative process of learning from recent catastrophes to reduce future risks.

AIR’s deterministic climate change scenarios provide the ability to conduct loss analyses.

This March it may have felt as though we were well into peak tornado time, but that is yet to come.

Every year since 2012, AIR has published a report on extreme event risk from a global perspective.

In 2018 and 2019, four typhoons struck Japan, incurring total insured losses of more than USD 30 billion.

In the past week floods in India and in the U.S. have brought ice-related risks to the fore.

Tornadoes can inflict death and devastation at any time of the year in the U.S.

India’s worst disaster since independence was an M7.6 earthquake that struck on January 26, 2001.

Whichever way you look at it, 2020 was yet another truly remarkable North Atlantic hurricane season.

How Climate Change May Affect Hurricane Risk in the United States.

Test your topical knowledge concerning hurricanes, typhoons and other storms, earthquakes, wildfire, climate change, and other phenomena.

A century ago, on December 16, 1920, a massive earthquake struck Haiyuan County in north-central China’s remote Gansu Province.

Besides the pandemic and hurricanes, 2020 will be remembered for wildfires in the Western United States.

The 2019 Southwest monsoon season caused a series of floods across India from late June to early October.

More than 100 earthquakes greater than M2.5 in magnitude recently shook Southern California within 24 hours.

Most hurricane damage is caused by wind and storm surge, but inland flooding is a major source of loss also.

Severe thunderstorm activity is particularly common in the U.S. Great Plains, Midwest, and Southeast.

The Northwest Pacific basin’s vast expanse of warm water explains its propensity to spawn intense storms.

The western United States has several characteristics that make it particularly prone to wildfires.

Together, the AIR hurricane and inland flood models for the U.S. provide a unified view of flood risk.

When an earthquake occurs in the U.S. we think of California, but one just struck North Carolina. What gives?

Kerala floods damage survey shows how AIR probabilistic India flood hazard maps help prepare for this risk.

AIR is taking bold steps to change how we quantify insurance and other financial risks due to climate change.

The Verisk COVID-19 Projection Tool provides information to help in the assessment of this event.

The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was widely forecast to have above-average activity.

The peak of the wildfire season across the U.S. Southwest occurs in June and early July.

Many areas along Japan’s coastline are at risk of being significantly affected by tsunamis of 10m or higher, depending on their topography.

"Great earthquakes" of around Mw 8.0 occur about once a year and stronger earthquakes are scarcer still - Valdivia was a 9.5.

As far as tornadoes are concerned, this was the second most active April on record, with 351 recorded.

U.S. Multiple Peril Crop Insurance covers loss of crop yields from natural causes including excessive moisture.

For stable continental regions such as Australia, damaging earthquakes, although relatively rare, do occur.

The Verisk COVID-19 Projection Tool is publicly available to enhance understanding of potential infections and deaths.

Earthquakes in the U.S. usually mean California, but other parts of the country are also at risk.

Globally increasing temperatures create conditions conducive to a higher frequency and/or severity of perils.

Until Anatol, Lothar, and Martin, a series of destructive European windstorms was thought to be extremely unlikely.

Earthquakes in New South Wales are generally weak and infrequent—but can cause significant losses.

As the Astros and Yankees head into Game 4 of the ALCS, we're reminded of a World Series game out in California between local teams 30 years ago, when an M6.9 earthquake shook Candlestick Park.

Sixty years ago, a powerful Category 4-equivalent typhoon named Vera came ashore west of Ise Bay in south-central Japan.

Are your U.S. coastal risk management strategies ready for increased exposure values, rising sea levels, and slower, wetter storms?

In December 2016, the White House released the Standards and Finance to Support Community Resilience report, which proposes key areas for developing more resilient homes, businesses, and infrastructure in the United States.