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Typhoon Lekima Follows a Familiar Path
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The first half of 2019 had been unusually quiet in the western North Pacific tropical cyclone basin. Following the dissipation of the…
An Award-Winning U.S. Inland Flood Model
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It was off to London’s Savoy Hotel for members of the RMS London team last Thursday, for the Eleventh Trading Risk Awards. And apart from the…
The Value of Flood Protection: Quantifying the B...
![Theresa Lederer](/sites/default/files/content/author/field_image/2020-01/TheresaLederer.jpg)
Whenever the U.K. is hit by major flooding, attention quickly turns to the performance of the nation’s flood defenses. Some defenses, such as…
Risk Modeler 1.11 Release: Accelerating Access t...
![Meghan Purdy](/sites/default/files/content/author/field_image/2020-01/Meghan-Purdy.jpeg)
The April release of Risk Modeler 1.11 marks a major milestone in both model science and software. For the first time at RMS, a complete high-…
Disaster Risk Reduction: Avoiding the Inevitable
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While natural hazards are inevitable, their impact on any given community is not. This is the thrust of the #NoNaturalDisasters campaign.…
The All-Peril Cat Five
![Robert Muir-Wood](/sites/default/files/content/author/field_image/2020-01/robert-moir.jpeg)
Why the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Intensity Scale had five levels we don’t know. The digits on a hand? Better than three, but lower resolution…
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