2016

Officials are just beginning to assess the damage in Fort McMurray following the massive devastation caused by the wildfire that began on May 1.

The mission of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, a partnership of four federal agencies, is to improve the nation's earthquake resilience in public safety, economic strength, and national security.

People like to name things, whether animals, cars, or storms, so they can more easily identify and remember them. Meteorological organizations have been naming tropical storm systems since the 1950s, which has proved popular with the general public, media, weather forecasters, and catastrophe modelers. The practice of naming storms, however, is not as simple as it may at first appear.

Working for a catastrophe modeling company, the first question that comes to my mind when in the city is "What would happen if an earthquake in Hong Kong?"

Our society is facing an enormous challenge. The “protection gap”—the difference between economic and insured losses—highlights the significant burden that society is carrying today when a natural disaster strikes.

Two weeks ago, AIR published the industry's first open source cyber scenario, allowing our clients to begin the process of truly owning their cyber risk.

New data has revealed that 1.4 billion people in South Asia, 81% of the region's population, are acutely exposed to at least one type of natural hazard and live in areas considered to have insufficient resources to cope with and rebound from an extreme event.

In 1949, when Popular Mechanics predicted that computers of the future might have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh a mere 1.5 tons, no one could have imagined the awesome power of today's computing technology.

As this year's hurricane season approaches, many are wondering if the 10-year drought of major hurricane landfalls experienced by the U.S. will come to an end.

Hailstorms can be highly localized and last for just minutes, but as farmers are well aware, they can do a lot of damage in a short time.