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# August 26, 2016: Questioning ARC's Model, Focusing Tornado Data and Where in the World Will 99L Go?
- URL: https://www.riskmarketnews.com/august-26-2016-questioning-arcs-model-focusing-tornado-data-world-will-99l-go/
- Published: 2016-08-26T06:43:59.000Z
- Updated: 2016-08-26T06:43:59.000Z
- Author: Chris Westfall

## Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today

### [Using High-Resolution Models to Improve Tornado Forecasts](http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/PT.5.4023?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Physics Today](http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/PT.5.4023?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Researchers are making progress toward distilling a flood of severe weather indicators into a useful predictive measure of severe weather probability.

### [Some Villages in Italy May Never Recover From Earthquake](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/world/europe/italy-earthquake-aftermath.html?%5Fr=0&ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/world/europe/italy-earthquake-aftermath.html?%5Fr=0&ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Pescara del Tronto is gone, and whether the place can ever be restored to the map seems an open question.

### [Can We Get Better at Predicting Earthquakes?](http://www.govtech.com/opinion/Can-We-Get-Better-at-Predicting-Earthquakes.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Government Technology](http://www.govtech.com/opinion/Can-We-Get-Better-at-Predicting-Earthquakes.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

There are already early warning systems for earthquakes, but advances in seismology provide hope that experts will be able to predict when new ones will occur.

### [Could We Have Prevented Zika?](http://www.marketplace.org/2016/08/25/world/could-we-have-prevented-zika?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Marketplace](http://www.marketplace.org/2016/08/25/world/could-we-have-prevented-zika?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Predictive mapping could have at least slowed the spread of the outbreak.

## Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today

### [ARC’s Covenant](http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21705856-worthy-insurance-scheme-goes-awry-arcs-covenant?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [The Economist](http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21705856-worthy-insurance-scheme-goes-awry-arcs-covenant?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

This year has brought prolonged dry spells to many parts of Malawi. ARC’s model said there was hardly a drought at all. Now officials are investigating the discrepancy.

### [Atlantic Storm Means a ‘Chess Game’ With Nature for Businesses](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-25/atlantic-storm-means-a-chess-game-with-nature-for-businesses?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-25/atlantic-storm-means-a-chess-game-with-nature-for-businesses?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

“A high-stakes game of wait-and-see is underway with 99L.”

### [Berkshire’s Jain Tells Gen Re Staff to Fix ‘Problem’ With Costs](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-25/berkshire-s-jain-tells-gen-re-staff-to-fix-problem-with-costs?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-25/berkshire-s-jain-tells-gen-re-staff-to-fix-problem-with-costs?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Amit Jain has a message for the staff that he oversees at Gen Re: It’s time for their business to get much leaner and less bureaucratic.

### [Quake Insurance Contracts Top 60%](http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0003172116?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Japan Times](http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0003172116?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

More people are see the need to have earthquake insurance following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that struck the Tohoku region.