tsunami News
AIR Worldwide Updates Earthquake Models for South America
Catastrophe risk modeler AIR Worldwide announced that it has updated its earthquake models for South America to include liquefaction and tsunami risks, as well as to enable the analysis of high-value ...
Guy Carpenter Report Predicts Tsunami Risk in Asia Pacific
Guy Carpenter's new scenario risk report for the Asia Pacific region predicts the greatest tsunami risk in the area lies in Taiwan. The report, titled "Tsunami Risk from Magnitude 9.4 Earthquake in ...
RMS Debuts Global Tsunami Scenario Catalog
RMS released a global tsunami scenario catalog to help insurers and reinsurers assess risks in high exposure regions they cover. The catastrophe modeling firm touted the catalog as the first of its ...
Willis Re Unveils Japan Tsunami Model in an Industry Milestone
Willis Re has come up with a Japan tsunami model, something it asserts is a first-time milestone for an extreme weather event whose resulting losses have been hard for the industry to understand. In ...
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 ...
Coping With Black Swans
The insurance and reinsurance industries are in business to take bets on risks that can be identified, assessed, prioritized and planned for financially. Disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes, ...Indonesia Cave Reveals History of Ancient Tsunamis
A cave discovered near the source of Indonesia's massive earthquake-spawned tsunami contains the footprints of past gigantic waves dating up to 7,500 years ago, a rare natural record that suggests ...
Study Reveals Cause of 2011 Tsunami; Other Areas at Risk
The devastating tsunami that struck Japan's Tohoku region in March 2011 was touched off by a submarine earthquake far more massive than anything geologists had expected in that zone. A team of ...