Julia Krezel

In today's world we are experiencing rapid changes in the amount of data that insurers are gathering and analyzing. The number of internet-connected devices and sensors is projected to reach 50 billion by 2020 and drones are expected to have a USD 6.8 billion impact on the insurance industry.

The 2013-16 Ebola crisis demonstrated that the world is not prepared to handle a major disease outbreak. To prevent a future outbreak from becoming a costly pandemic, society needs to quickly mobilize funds to assist countries and health agencies.

Hurricane Andrew, which made landfall in Miami-Dade County 25 years ago, damaged or destroyed thousands of homes.

At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, San Francisco residents awoke to the shaking of a massive M7.8 earthquake. Structures throughout the city were destroyed, and for at least four days, 50–60 fires burned and devastated the shattered city.

Ductility is a materials property that describes the extent to which a material (or structure) can undergo large deformations without failing.

In the early hours of August 24, 2016, 100 km northeast of Rome, a strong and shallow magnitude 6.2 earthquake and a series of aftershocks rattled a portion of the Apennine Mountains in central Italy, wreaking disaster on a cluster of towns and villages, particularly the areas of Amatrice, Accumoli, Norcia, and Pescara del Tronto.