Haiti Earthquake: Ten Years On
This week marks the tenth anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. The magnitude 7.0 event ruptured a thrust fault associated with the...
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Australia Bushfires: A New Normal?
The sheer scale of the Australian bushfires is hard to comprehend, as what has already been a long bushfire season continues apace. Australia’s most-populous...
- RMS / Article / 15 days ago
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White Island Risk Mitigation: A Role for Insurance
Safety from volcanic eruptions is heavily influenced by economic factors. Those who earn their livelihood from farming around a volcano may be reluctant to...
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Newcastle: Thirtieth Anniversary of Australia’s Largest Earthquake Loss. But What If…?
Over the past 15 years, we have witnessed some of the world’s largest possible recorded earthquakes that have had catastrophic impacts around the globe...
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Twenty Years After Storms Anatol, Lothar and Martin: Memories From the End of the Millennium
Twenty years ago, while the planet was getting ready for transitioning to year 2000 and trying to solve the Y2K bug, the (re)insurance industry in Europe got...
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Nine Years After Darfield: When an Earthquake Drives a New Model – Part Two
The Liquefaction Model The 2010 M7.1 Darfield earthquake in New Zealand started a sequence of events - the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence (CES), that...
- RMS / Article / 2 months ago
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Nine Years After Darfield: When an Earthquake Drives a New Model – Part One
The Source Model The 2010 M7.1 Darfield earthquake in New Zealand started a sequence of events that propagated eastward in the Canterbury region over...
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Venice in Peril
The first time I noticed the coincidence I assumed there had been a mistake. The most-costly flooding in modern Italian history inundated the city of Florence....
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RMS Estimates Insured Losses From Typhoon Hagibis To Be Between USD $7 Billion To $11 Billion
RMS, the world’s leading catastrophe risk modeling company, has estimated insured losses stemming from Typhoon Hagibis in Japan will be between USD $7 billion to $11 billion...
- RMS / Article / 3 months ago
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A need for multi-gap analysis
The insurance protection gap is composed of emerging markets and high-risk and intangible exposures...
- RMS / Article / 3 months ago
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