AIR Worldwide

6/13/2022 - 5 min read

Is New Orleans Safe from Another Katrina Like Storm Surge

Hurricane Katrina is greatly known for its level of devastation in New Orleans, but how has the city prepared to protect themselves against a similar storm?

6/3/2022 - 5 min read

Are property owners and insurers ready for the next big earthquake?

The big question facing many insurers and policyholders is: Are we equipped for these rare-but-devastating disasters?

4/7/2022 - 4 min read

3 Major Iberian Earthquakes Highlight European Risk

A brief history of 3 major earthquakes will highlight the risks that European regions are susceptible to, even in modern day.

1/24/2022 - 3 min read

Chile’s Earthquake Resilience is an Iterative Process

With a 6,435 km coastline along the Circum-Pacific belt, Chile has become resilient against earthquake damage with this iterative process.

8/19/2021 - 5 min read

Why the Central China Floods of 1931 Were a Natural and Man-Made Disaster

Flooding remains a perennial problem during summer, along China’s major rivers, and in coastal provinces.

5/19/2021 - 13 min read

Managing Tsunami Risk in Japan, After Tohoku

This article is the third and final one in our series on managing Japan earthquake risk; it describes our updates to modeling tsunami risk.

12/17/2020 - 4 min read

The 1920 Haiyuan Earthquake: One of the 20th Century’s Deadliest

A century ago, on December 16, 1920, a massive earthquake struck Haiyuan County in north-central China’s remote Gansu Province.

6/22/2020 - 13 min read

Modeling Fundamentals: So You Want to Issue a Cat Bond

In this article Harry White, CEEM, revisits our 2016 primer on the catastrophe bond issuance process to reflect changes in the cat bond market landscape and EES offerings

6/15/2020 - 3 min read

Tsunami Risk in Japan: A Devastating Event 124 Years Ago Today

Many areas along Japan’s coastline are at risk of being significantly affected by tsunamis of 10m or higher, depending on their topography.

5/21/2020 - 3 min read

Valdivia Earthquake: The Strongest Ever Recorded

The Valdivia earthquake was a 9.5 Mw - great earthquakes are usually 8.0 Mw. Learn more about the greatest earthquake ever recorded.

12/8/2017 - 3 min read

California's December wildfires: Assessing the risk

To get a preliminary view of risk within the wildfire-affected areas of California, we used FireLine—Verisk’s wildfire risk management tool.

11/17/2017 - 1 min read

AIR updates insured loss estimates for California wildfires

Verisk’s AIR Worldwide has updated its loss estimates for the recent California Wildfires after analyzing findings from its damage survey conducted during the week of October 30. AIR now estimates that insured losses from the Tubbs, Nuns, Atlas, Redwood, and Sulphur fires in California will be between $8 billion and $10.5 billion.

11/14/2017 - 1 min read

FEMA selects AIR Worldwide’s flood model to better understand the NFIP’s risk

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has selected AIR Worldwide’s innovative Inland Flood and Storm Surge Models for the United States to better understand the National Flood Insurance Program’s (NFIP) loss potential.

11/6/2017 - 17 min read

Top 10 historical earthquakes in the U.S.: What would they cost today?

Verisk periodically publishes a list of the costliest historical U.S. earthquakes—were they to recur today.

10/27/2017 - 4 min read

AIR estimates losses for California wildfires

Verisk estimates that industry insured losses from the Tubbs, Pocket, Nuns, Atlas, Redwood, and Sulphur fires in California will be between $2 to $3 billion.