Tao Lai

Catastrophe models are for loss estimation and it’s critical they are validated to ensure reasonability.

For no good reason many bad things happened around the third week of April, including natural catastrophes.

AIR has been using the Capacity Spectrum Method (CSM) for earthquake damage estimation for many models developed since the 1990s.

The notion that 10% of high-rise structures in San Francisco could collapse during a major earthquake has unsurprisingly gotten a great deal of attention. Is it true?

Earlier this year an article in The New York Times speculated about the “high” probability of steel high-rise buildings in San Francisco built before the 1994 Northridge earthquake collapsing in a future quake.

Earlier this year The New York Times published three articles regarding the seismic hazard and safety concerns for tall buildings, particularly those in San Francisco, which stimulated discussion both in the public domain and in the engineering community.

I'm a Bostonian who has visited New Zealand often and noticed many similarities between Christchurch and my home town. There are definitely concerns about Boston's seismic risks.