To mark the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a new risk bulletin from Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) – ‘Hurricane Katrina 10: Catastrophe Management And Global Windstorm Peril Review’ – analyzes windstorm risks and losses and examines the lessons learned
A survey by PwC has looked at the future of power supply in the region, assessing the risks as well as utility company plans to secure future supplies.
Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield's catastrophe model development team, has published the latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide during July 2015.
A new initiative has been launched by a group of like-minded businesses to help lessen the impact of natural disasters in New Zealand and enable better recovery when they strike.
The Australian Minister for Justice Michael Keenan has announced $ AUD 3.7 million in funding for projects to help communities prepare for, respond to and recover from natural disasters and emergencies.
US DHS Secretary Jeh C. Johnson has announced that the DHS has made some organizational changes because of the increasing importance of its cybersecurity mission.
Extreme space weather has long been seen as a threat to electrical grids in high-latitude regions of the northern and southern hemispheres, but a new study finds that smaller scale space weather events are amplified near the equator, putting power grids at risk in regions previously considered safe.
According to preliminary estimates by Swiss Re, total economic losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters reached USD 37 billion in the first half of 2015.
Precariously balanced rocks suggest San Jacinto and San Andreas may have ruptured together, raising issues for critical infrastructure resilience planning.
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