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# November 7, 2016: Asia-Pac Catastrophe Insurance Cover Pushed and Oklahoma Quake Rattles Oil Hub
- URL: https://www.riskmarketnews.com/november-7-2016-asia-pac-catastrophe-insurance-cover-pushed-oklahoma-quake-rattles-oil-hub/
- Published: 2016-11-07T06:30:58.000Z
- Updated: 2016-11-07T06:30:58.000Z
- Author: Chris Westfall

## Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today

### [Magnitude 5 Quake Strikes Close to Largest U.S. Oil Storage Hub](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-07/magnitude-5-quake-strikes-close-to-largest-u-s-oil-storage-hub?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-07/magnitude-5-quake-strikes-close-to-largest-u-s-oil-storage-hub?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

A magnitude 5 earthquake struck Oklahoma on Sunday near the largest U.S. oil storage hub, prompting some pipeline companies to shut down operations at the site as a precaution.

### [When a City Stops Arguing About Climate Change and Starts Planning](https://nextcity.org/features/view/climate-change-cities-planning-charleston-flood?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Next City](https://nextcity.org/features/view/climate-change-cities-planning-charleston-flood?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Charleston, South Carolina, is adapting to a hotter, wetter and riskier future.

### [Psychology and Cyclones: Why We don’t Prepare, and What We Can Learn From Other Cultures](http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-07/psychology-and-cyclones-why-we-dont-prepare/8001588?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [ABC News](http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-07/psychology-and-cyclones-why-we-dont-prepare/8001588?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

After a weekend of wild weather and with the cyclone season upon us, it is a good time to ask — why do we fail to prepare for the worst?

### [Climate Change Challenges Authoritarian China: Experts](http://phys.org/news/2016-11-climate-authoritarian-china-experts.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Phys.org](http://phys.org/news/2016-11-climate-authoritarian-china-experts.html?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Officials’ promotion prospects are linked to economic growth in their areas, creating “dangerous short-termism” in decision making.

## Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today

### [Insurers, Bishop Push for Regional Disaster Risk Cover](http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/financial-services/insurers-bishop-push-for-regional-disaster-risk-cover/news-story/f92409527415b169e73189710d5f1c65?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [The Australian ](http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/financial-services/insurers-bishop-push-for-regional-disaster-risk-cover/news-story/f92409527415b169e73189710d5f1c65?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

The Australian insurance industry and the federal government are looking at extending to the Asia-Pacific region a global push to insure against the cost of dealing with the growing number of natural disasters.

### [China Adopts Cybersecurity Law Despite Foreign Opposition](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-07/china-passes-cybersecurity-law-despite-strong-foreign-opposition?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-07/china-passes-cybersecurity-law-despite-strong-foreign-opposition?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

China has green-lit a sweeping and controversial law that may grant Beijing unprecedented access to foreign companies’ technology and hamstring their operations in the world’s second-largest economy.

### [Rich States Urged to Dig Deeper to Help Poor Respond to ‘Climate Crisis’](http://news.trust.org/item/20161107100422-33fup/?source=gep)

#### [Reuters](http://news.trust.org/item/20161107100422-33fup/?source=gep)

When ministers gather at the two-week U.N. climate change talks in Morocco, one of their focuses will be finding ways to boost funding for developing countries to adapt to the effects of climate change.

### [The Risk to Civil Liberties of Fighting Crime With Big Data](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/technology/the-risk-to-civil-liberties-of-fighting-crime-with-big-data.html?%5Fr=0&ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/technology/the-risk-to-civil-liberties-of-fighting-crime-with-big-data.html?%5Fr=0&ref=riskmarketnews.com)

RELX, which has for years been buying and building up databases of police information, has become something like the Ticketmaster of insurance reporting.