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# February 6, 2015: Cyber Risks Are Just Too Big and Blowing Up Earthquake Science
- URL: https://www.riskmarketnews.com/february-6-2015-cyber-risks-just-big-blowing-earthquake-science/
- Published: 2015-02-06T06:51:32.000Z
- Updated: 2015-02-06T06:51:32.000Z
- Author: Chris Westfall

## Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today

### [Geologists Solve Tectonic Plate Mystery with Half a Tonne of Explosives](http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/feb/05/geologists-solve-tectonic-plate-mystery-with-half-a-tonne-of-explosives?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [The Guardian](http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/feb/05/geologists-solve-tectonic-plate-mystery-with-half-a-tonne-of-explosives?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

A New Zealand experiment using explosive slurry poured into 50m-deep holes helps measure rock layers on the border of Pacific and Australian plates.

### [Madagascar Faces Triple Threat From Disasters as Hundreds Die](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-06/madagascar-faces-triple-threat-from-disasters-as-hundreds-die?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-06/madagascar-faces-triple-threat-from-disasters-as-hundreds-die?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Madagascar is confronting a triple threat: an outbreak of the plague, drought-induced starvation and the aftermath of a tropical storm.

### [Hawaii, Vulnerable to Tsunamis, Prepares for the Worst](http://www.voanews.com/content/hawaii-vulnerable-yo-tsunamis-prepares-for-the-worst/2631262.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Voice of America](http://www.voanews.com/content/hawaii-vulnerable-yo-tsunamis-prepares-for-the-worst/2631262.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The reality of rising sea levels caused by climate change means many coastal communities and island nations are vulnerable to tsunamis.

### [Fukushima Dai-ichi: Mission Impossible](http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21642221-industrial-clean-up-without-precedent-mission-impossible?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [The Economist](http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21642221-industrial-clean-up-without-precedent-mission-impossible?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

An industrial clean-up without precedent.

## Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today

### [New York Reduces Life-Insurance Reserves To Reduce Allure of ‘Captives’](http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/02/05/new-york-reduces-life-insurance-reserves-to-reduce-allure-of-captives/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [WSJ (sub may be required)](http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/02/05/new-york-reduces-life-insurance-reserves-to-reduce-allure-of-captives/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

New York’s top financial watchdog said it would reduce by as much as 15% the amount of reserves insurers must set aside for a type of life-insurance policy long popular with the well-to-do.

### [Cyber Risks Too Big to Cover, Says Lloyd’s Insurer](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/94243f5a-ad38-11e4-bfcf-00144feab7de.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com#axzz3QxlmuteE)

#### [FT (sub may be required) ](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/94243f5a-ad38-11e4-bfcf-00144feab7de.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com#axzz3QxlmuteE)

“Our balance sheets are not large enough to pay for that.”

### [Insurance in China: The Big Anbang](http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21642197-once-obscure-chinese-financial-firm-leaps-spotlight-big-anbang?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [The Economist](http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21642197-once-obscure-chinese-financial-firm-leaps-spotlight-big-anbang?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

A once-obscure Chinese financial firm leaps into the spotlight.

### [Could Crop Insurance Subsidies Be at Risk in 2015?](http://www.agweb.com/article/could-crop-insurance-subsidies-be-at-risk-in-2015-NAA-alison-rice/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [AgWeb](http://www.agweb.com/article/could-crop-insurance-subsidies-be-at-risk-in-2015-NAA-alison-rice/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

“This is probably the most challenging year for crop insurance in a very long time,” warned Mary Kay Thatcher of the American Farm Bureau Federation.