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# July 18, 2016: Oklahoma's Quake Conundrums,  AIR Focuses on Resilience and Avoiding the Next Ebola Crisis
- URL: https://www.riskmarketnews.com/july-18-2016-oklahomas-quake-conundrums-air-focuses-resilience-avoiding-next-ebola-crisis/
- Published: 2016-07-18T08:25:05.000Z
- Updated: 2016-07-18T08:25:05.000Z
- Author: Chris Westfall

## Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today

### [Slow Quakes Add Clues for Forecasting Terrible Tremors](http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/slow-quakes-add-clues-for-forecasting-terrible-tremors/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Scientific American](http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/slow-quakes-add-clues-for-forecasting-terrible-tremors/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The quiet events could be valuable signs of danger areas even if they don’t make short-term prediction possible.

### [Despite Seismic Hot Spot, Oklahoma Sees Drop in Quakes as Wastewater Injection Volume Declines](http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/state/despite-seismic-hot-spot-oklahoma-sees-drop-in-quakes-as/article%5F416a34c2-d6dc-5542-a50f-290e6d3ebeb7.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Tulsa World](http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/state/despite-seismic-hot-spot-oklahoma-sees-drop-in-quakes-as/article%5F416a34c2-d6dc-5542-a50f-290e6d3ebeb7.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Oklahoma is on pace for fewer earthquakes than the prior year for the first time since 2012 — but an area in northwest Oklahoma remains seismically strong and a concern to scientists.

### [Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season Sparks Into Life](http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/07/eastern-pacific-hurricane-season-sparks-life-160717090237721.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Al Jazeera](http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/07/eastern-pacific-hurricane-season-sparks-life-160717090237721.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

After a very slow start, cyclones are coming thick and fast, in one region.

### [Escalation of Ebola Crisis Could Have Been Avoided, says World Bank President](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jul/18/ebola-escalation-could-have-been-avoided-world-bank-president-jim-young-kim-pandemic-financing-facility?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jul/18/ebola-escalation-could-have-been-avoided-world-bank-president-jim-young-kim-pandemic-financing-facility?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Jim Yong Kim points finger at funding delay and hails launch of pandemic financing facility as opportunity to ensure past mistakes are not repeated.

## Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today

### [Khazanah Said to Mull Bid for Billionaire Quek’s Insurer Stakes](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-18/khazanah-said-to-mull-bid-for-billionaire-quek-s-insurer-stakes?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-18/khazanah-said-to-mull-bid-for-billionaire-quek-s-insurer-stakes?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The purchase would add to $10.3 billion of insurance acquisitions in Southeast Asia in the past five years.

### [AIR Worldwide Announces New Global Resilience Practice](http://www.air-worldwide.com/Press-Releases/AIR-Worldwide-Announces-New-Global-Resilience-Practice/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Press Release](http://www.air-worldwide.com/Press-Releases/AIR-Worldwide-Announces-New-Global-Resilience-Practice/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The initiative is aimed at developing solutions that aid society’s efforts to better prepare for and recover from catastrophes.

### [Noncompetitive Market for Earthquake Insurance Causes Concern](http://www.tulsaworld.com/earthquakes/noncompetitive-market-for-earthquake-insurance-causes-concern/article%5Fb05510b5-51ec-549e-8a91-c92a8039a2b8.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Tulsa World](http://www.tulsaworld.com/earthquakes/noncompetitive-market-for-earthquake-insurance-causes-concern/article%5Fb05510b5-51ec-549e-8a91-c92a8039a2b8.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The regulatory move of calling the market noncompetitive came after the state saw massive — 300 percent — increases in insurance rates.

### [VN Government Puts a Leash on Foreign Reinsurance](http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/business/160552/vn-government-puts-a-leash-on-foreign-reinsurance.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Vietnam.net](http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/business/160552/vn-government-puts-a-leash-on-foreign-reinsurance.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Foreign insurers operating in Vietnam are no longer allowed to transfer their entire premium collected in the country to their mother companies through overseas reinsurance contracts.