Retrospective Reports

Reconnaissance Reports

Natural Hazard Special Reports

Emerging Risk Special Reports

RMS Reports

Retrospective Reports
1959 Super Typhoon Vera: 50-Year Retrospective
The 1999 Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak: 10-Year Retrospective
The 1999 Sydney Hailstorm: 10-Year Retrospective
The 1908 Messina Earthquake: 100-Year Retrospective
The 1938 New England Hurricane: Looking to the Past to Understand Today's Risk
The 1868 Hayward Earthquake: 140-Year Retrospective
The 1993 Superstorm: 15-Year Retrospective
The 1998 Ice Storm: 10-Year Retrospective
The Great Storm of 1987: 20-year Retrospective
The 1927 Great Mississippi Flood: 80-Year Retrospective
The 1679 Sanhe-Pinggu Earthquake: Implications for the Modern-Day Beijing Region
The 1947 U.K. River Floods: 60-Year Retrospective
The 1607 Bristol Channel Floods: 400-Year Retrospective
The 1857 Fort Tejon Earthquake: 150-Year Retrospective
The 1356 Basel Earthquake: 650-Year Retrospective
The 1976 Great Tangshan Earthquake: 30-Year Retrospective
The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire: Perspectives on a Modern Super Cat
The 1995 Kobe Earthquake 10-year Retrospective
Northridge, California Earthquake 10-year Retrospective
Cyclone Tracy 30-year Retrospective
December 1703 Windstorm 300-year Retrospective
1953 U.K. Floods

Reconnaissance Reports
RMS FAQ: 2010 Haiti Earthquake and Caribbean Earthquake Risk
The 2008 U.S. Severe Convective Storm Season
The 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake: Risk Management Lessons and Implications
The 2007 U.S. Wildfire Season: Lessons from Southern California
U.K. Summer 2007 Floods
2007 Pu’er, China Earthquake Event Report
2006 Kiholo Bay, Hawaii Earthquake Event Report
Hurricane Katrina: Lessons and Implications for Catastrophe Risk Management
Managing Tsunami Risk in the Aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake & Tsunami
Estimating Losses From the 2004 Southeast Asia Earthquake and Tsunami
2003 San Simeon, California Earthquake
2003 Boumerdes (Algeria) Earthquake
Central Europe Flooding, August 2002
Tropical Storm Allison Event Report
Interdisciplinary Observations on the January, 2001 Bhuj, Gujarat Earthquake
U.K. Floods: November, 2000
U.K. Floods: October, 2000
Chi-Chi, Taiwan Earthquake Event Report
Kocaeli, Turkey Earthquake Event Report
Windstorms Lothar and Martin Event Report

Natural Hazard Special Reports
RMS 2009 Hurricane Season in Review and 2010 Season Outlook (public version)
RMS FAQ: Research on Climate Change and Disaster Loss Costs and the IPCC
Catastrophe Modeling and California Earthquake Risk: A 20-Year Perspective
Comet and Asteroid Risk: An Analysis of the 1908 Tunguska Event
A New Era of Volcano Risk Management
Analyzing The Effects of the My Safe Florida Home Program on Florida Insurance Risk
Coastal Communities and Climate Change: Maintaining Future Insurability
A Guide to Catastrophe Modeling (English) (Spanish)
Earthquake Clustering due to Stress Interactions
Proceedings of the 2008 RMS Science Symposium: Advances in Earthquake Forecasting
Ranking of the World's Cities Most Exposed to Coastal Flooding Today and in the Future: Executive Summary
2007 Hurricane Season Outlook
Flood Risk in New Orleans: Implications for Future Management and Insurability
Proceedings of the 2006 RMS Hurricane Eyewall Symposium
Creating a Technical Foundation for Earthquake Insurance in China
U.S. and Caribbean Hurricane Activity Rates
Natural Catastrophe Probable Maximum Loss
Analyzing Insurance-Linked Securities

Emerging Risk Special Reports
The Macondo, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill: Insurance Implications
Learning from the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic
Terrorism Risk: 7-Year Retrospective, 7-Year Future Perspective
RMS Special Report on the World Trade Center Disaster
Catastrophe Mortality in Japan: The Impact of Catastrophes on Life and Personal Accident Insurance
Catastrophe, Injury, and Insurance: The Impact of Catastrophes on Workers Compensation, Life, and Health Insurance
Assessing Workers Comp Risk from Earthquakes
Influenza Pandemic Model Overview
Influenza Pandemic Business Continuity Solutions
The Viability of Terrorism Risk Modeling: A Five-Year Retrospective
A Risk Based Rationale for Extending TRIA
A Terrorism Risk Analyst's Perspective on TRIA
Applications of Building-level Data for Catastrophe Risk Management―Sanborn CitySets™ Data
Benefit-Cost Analyses for Malevolent Human Actions
Game Theory and Terrorism Risk
Managing Risk in the Aftermath of the World Trade Center Catastrophe
Mathematical Aspects of Terrorism Hazard
The Al Qaeda War Game
The Art of Terror
Quantifying Insurance Terrorism Risk
Quantitative Terrorism Risk Assessment

 

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