Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today
Using High-Resolution Models to Improve Tornado Forecasts
Physics Today
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
New York Times
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?
Government Technology
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?
Marketplace
Predictive mapping could have at least slowed the spread of the outbreak.
Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today
ARC’s Covenant
The Economist
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
Bloomberg
“A high-stakes game of wait-and-see is underway with 99L.”
Berkshire’s Jain Tells Gen Re Staff to Fix ‘Problem’ With Costs
Bloomberg
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%
Japan Times
More people are see the need to have earthquake insurance following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that struck the Tohoku region.
