2018

While the fate of the communities exposed to this monster will become apparent, here is what we can expect in terms of performance of the building stock in this part of Florida.

On Tuesday, hurricane experts were expecting Hurricane Michael to reach the coast of Florida as a Category 3 storm but overnight it intensified to a monster Category 4 hurricane.

Following Hurricane Florence I accompanied members of the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) disaster assessment team to evaluate the wind performance of building stock.

Indonesia is one of the most seismically active countries in the world. Learn how scientists knew the September 2018 Palu earthquake would be disastrous.

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.

Rejection sampling is a simple but useful Monte Carlo sampling method that has many applications in cat modeling and hazard simulation.

Typhoon Ida made landfall in Japan 60 years ago, bringing record levels of precipitation to Tokyo and nearby provinces, causing devastating mudslides and flooding.

Given advances in science and statistics, we set out to develop an explicitly space-time and environmentally driven representation of tropical cyclogenesis—the origin of a tropical cyclone.

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.

For the second time in the last two years, hurricane precipitation in the U.S. will be exacerbated by incredibly slow movement.