Tropical Cyclone

Palu, a city of more than 330,000 people on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, was struck by a major earthquake and tsunami one year ago on September 28, 2018.

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

AIR's Dr. Karthik Ramanathan contributed to a podcast discussing why the Florida Building Code wasn't tough enough for structures in the Panhandle to withstand Michael's Category 5 winds.

Hurricane Dorian has etched its name permanently into the annals of Bahamian history. While Florida escaped a potential multi-billion-dollar event, the Abaco and Grand Bahaman islands were devastated.

When my husband and I visited St. Simons Island it struck us as curious that so many wooden stairs were buried nearly halfway into the beach sand and that very large rocks lined the shore.

Tsunamis are a coastal phenomenon, and New Zealand is vulnerable to local and regional tsunamis as well as tsunamis from distant trans-ocean basin earthquakes.

Several factors influence hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin, but is the Saharan Air Layer one of them?

Most coastal flooding in the UK is caused by extra-tropical cyclones (ETCs). The updated ETC model now incorporates storm surge and demonstrates more accurate event losses and a more certain view of risk.

China's economy has developed significantly in recent years, and this has been reflected in a dramatic burst of construction.

AIR has a long and proud history of sending out engineering teams to conduct damage surveys in the wake of major catastrophe events.