December 2015

GeoHazards International (GHI) is an independent California-based charity with a mission to promote the adoption of modern building codes, land-use planning, science and engineering education, and innovative risk reduction techniques among the world’s poor and underserved communities.

Florida has not seen a single hurricane landfall in ten years, and has experienced hurricane landfalls in just five years of the last twenty.

Just as the Atlantic hurricane season has ended, the European windstorm season is already underway.

The strong El Niño of 2015 produced an Atlantic season with the climatological average number of tropical cyclones. However, as expected, it greatly enhanced activity in the Eastern and Central Pacific.

Several weeks of exceptionally heavy rain have brought major flooding to the state of Tamil Nadu in India and devastation to its capital of Chennai, India's fifth largest city.

Catastrophe model output is the basis for understanding and quantifying catastrophe risk, and today's risk managers—at all levels within an organization—need tools that empower them and provide transparency, flexibility, and choice; tools that allow them to own their risk.