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# February 3, 2015: Asia Faces Cat Risk Transfer Hurdles and Canada May Push the Earthquake Fracking Record
- URL: https://www.riskmarketnews.com/february-3-2015-asia-faces-cat-risk-transfer-hurdles-canada-may-push-earthquake-fracking-record/
- Published: 2015-02-03T07:26:01.000Z
- Updated: 2015-02-03T07:26:01.000Z
- Author: Chris Westfall

## Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today

### [Canada May Have Just Set A Fracking Earthquake World Record ](http://io9.com/canada-may-have-just-set-a-fracking-earthquake-world-re-1683298457?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [io9](http://io9.com/canada-may-have-just-set-a-fracking-earthquake-world-re-1683298457?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Late last month’s 4.4 magnitude earthquake in Alberta may be the largest earthquake ever to have been induced by fracking.

### [Is Ebola the New Powder Keg?](http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/02/02/is-ebola-the-new-powder-keg/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Foreign Policy](http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/02/02/is-ebola-the-new-powder-keg/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

West Africa may finally be on the road to recovery. But the worst of the Ebola crisis may be yet to come.

### [The West’s Forest Fire Problem Costs More Every Year](http://www.newsweek.com/wests-forest-fire-problem-cost-more-every-year-303357?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Newsweek](http://www.newsweek.com/wests-forest-fire-problem-cost-more-every-year-303357?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Dangerous climate conditions are not the only thing to blame for these increasingly costly—and deadly—fires.

### [Researchers Link Smoke From fires to Tornado Intensity](http://phys.org/news/2015-02-link-tornado-intensity.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Phys.org](http://phys.org/news/2015-02-link-tornado-intensity.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Can smoke from fires intensify tornadoes? “Yes,” say University of Iowa researchers.

## Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today

### [Sovereign Catastrophe Risk Transfer in Asia Faces Barriers](http://www.risk.net/asia-risk/feature/2392600/sovereign-catastrophe-risk-transfer-in-asia-faces-barriers?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Risk.net (sub required)](http://www.risk.net/asia-risk/feature/2392600/sovereign-catastrophe-risk-transfer-in-asia-faces-barriers?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

World Bank has successfully run out programmes in the Caribbean and Mexico but so far not in peril-prone South-east Asia.

### [Hartford Profit Rises 22% as Policy Sales Climb Under Swift](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-02/hartford-profit-climbs-22-on-property-casualty-gain-under-swift?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-02/hartford-profit-climbs-22-on-property-casualty-gain-under-swift?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Hartford has divested life-insurance units and is investing in coverage for homes, cars and businesses.

### [Africa Risk Capacity Set to Pay $25mln Drought Insurance Claim](http://www.cnbcafrica.com/video/?bctid=4027634212001&ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [CNBC Africa (Video)](http://www.cnbcafrica.com/video/?bctid=4027634212001&ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Eight U.S. web giants have joined hands to start a public campaign for new lion how governments collect user information amid concerns of growing online surveillance.

### [Warren Buffett’s Insurance Operations Counters NZ Insurers’ Argument ](http://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/73843/cam-preston-uses-warren-buffetts-insurance-operations-counter-nz-insurers-argument-the?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Interest.nz](http://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/73843/cam-preston-uses-warren-buffetts-insurance-operations-counter-nz-insurers-argument-the?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Are New Zealand insurers “not getting financially better off by delaying claims”?