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How a Solar Storm Almost Sparked a Nuclear War

A solar storm that jammed radar and radio communications at the height of the Cold War could have led to a disastrous military conflict if not for the U.S. Air Force's budding efforts to monitor the ...

From Sinkholes to Tsunamis: Assessing Nonmodeled Risks That Matter to Your Company

The degree of uncertainty for modeled perils draws a lot of attention from most insurance companies. A significant amount of resources are put into improving data quality, modeling assumptions, model ...

Reuters: Regs Being Drafted to Prep Power for U.S. Solar Storms

U.S. electricity regulators have begun drafting new reliability standards to protect the power grid from a repeat of severe geomagnetic storms like those that crippled the U.S. telegraph service in ...

Possible Infrastructure Disruption, Claims Resulting From Geomagnetic Storms

Solar and geomagnetic activity is expected to peak this year, increasing the possibility of disruption to government and private infrastructure. According to Rade Musulin, COO Aon Benfield Analytics ...