By Tahiry Rabehaja. Email: tahiry.rabehaja@riskfrontiers.com. 2017 was not a good year for cyber security. Victims ranged from small businesses to corporate giants such as Equifax, Deloitte and Kmart with the impacts of ‘improved’ ransomware such as WannaCry and NotPetya just two…
Jacob Evans, Risk Frontiers (jacob.evans@riskfrontiers.com) Modern concrete is porous and degrades in contact with seawater. Seawater can seep into its pores, and when dried out the salts crystalize. The crystallization pressure of the salts produces stresses that can result in…
Paul Somerville, Risk Frontiers Until now, GNS Science earthquake forecasts have been mainly focused on aftershocks occurring within the region affected by mainshock events. This has been the case for the 2010 Mw 7.1 Darfield and 2011 Mw 6.2 Christchurch…
Weather-related natural disasters 2017: was this a reversion to the mean? Professor Roger Pielke Jr (University of Colorado, Boulder) Last July, I observed here that the world had recently experienced an era of unusually low disasters and that streak of…
Alice Carney1, Lucinda Coates1,2,3 and Katharine Haynes1,3 1 Macquarie University 2 Risk Frontiers 3 Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre Risk Frontiers recently examined the circumstances surrounding deaths from flood events in Australia as part of a wider Bushfire…
The following article, by Max Fisher, appeared in The Interpreter, New York Times, on January 14, 2018, the day after state emergency officials in Hawaii made a false warning to take shelter from an inbound missile threat. Three days later,…
