To subscribe to our briefing notes
please email: info@riskfrontiers.com.
Briefing Note 434
Findings of the 2020 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change
Briefing Note 433
The first taste of a summer to come? Why Australian beaches are some of the most sensitive in the world to La Nina.
Briefing Note 432
Is Australia prepared for the next earthquake? Reflections of Peter McBean
Briefing Note 431
“A view of Australia’s climate in 2020”
Briefing Note 430
“How Overdispersion Drives the Spread of the
SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic”
Briefing Note 429
Tracing tsunami impacts back to their source across ocean basins
Briefing Note 428
Accidental Ammonium Nitrate Explosions
Briefing Note 427
From the Vault: What we knew about a future pandemic
in 2005
Briefing Note 426
Heatwave poses challenge to Japanese medical system
already stressed by virus
Briefing Note 425
California Bushfires, August 2020
Briefing Note 424
Risk based earthquake pricing using catastrophe model output
Briefing Note 423
How many storms make a big storm?
Briefing Note 422
Rapid detection of earthquakes and tsunamis using see floor fibre-optic cables
Briefing Note 421
A Short Path to Coronavirus Herd Immunity
Briefing Note 420
The Difference Between Complicated and Complex Systems
Briefing Note 419
Low Damage Seismic Design
Briefing Note 418
The Imperial College Modelling
Briefing Note 417
Will COVID-19 affect ECL forecasts on the 46th anniversary of the Sygna Storm?
Briefing Note 416
The May 2020 Burra Earthquake Sequence and its Relation to Flinders Ranges Faults
Briefing Note 415
Ranking of Potential Causes of Human Extinction
Briefing Note 414
No, senator, science can’t do away with models
Briefing Note 413
The 25th Solar Cycle is about to begin, with new evidence for enormous solar storms
Briefing Note 412
Devil’s Staircase of Earthquake Occurrence: Implications for Seismic Hazard in Australia and New Zealand
Briefing Note 411
Modelling the Coronavirus Pandemic to Guide Policy in Real Time
Briefing Note 410
Newton did OK working from home during a pandemic
Briefing Note 409 [March 2020]
NSW/ACT Large Scale Hail Event, January 2020:
An overview of Risk Frontiers’ Post-Event Loss Estimate Capabilities
Briefing Note 408 [February 2020]
February 2020 East Coast Low: Sydney Impacts
Briefing Note 407 [December 2019]
Australia needs a national crisis plan, and not just for bushfires
Briefing Note 406 [December 2019]
November 2019: Sunshine Coast Hailstorm
Briefing Note 405 [November 2019]
Australia’s 2020 Cyber Security Strategy
Briefing Note 404 [November 2019]
Natural Catastrophes Greatest Risk for East Asia and the Pacific
Briefing Note 403 [November 2019]
California Fire and Power
Briefing Note 402 [October 2019]
Coastal flooding and coral bleaching: what the latest IPCC Special Report means for Australia
Briefing Note 401 [September 2019]
History of early season bushfires in NSW and Queensland
Briefing Note 400 [August 2019]
Death Benefits
Briefing Note 399 [July 2019]
Using catastrophe loss models to improve decision making in disaster management
Briefing Note 398 [July 2019]
The 14 July 2019 Mw 6.6 Offshore Broome and Mw 7.3 Halmahera Earthquakes
Briefing Note 397 [July 2019]
The 4-5 July 2019 M 6.4 and 7.1 Ridgecrest, California Earthquakes
Briefing Note 396 [June 2019]
Darwin shaken by a deep Mw 7.3 earthquake in the Banda Sea
Briefing Note 395 [June 2019]
The need for transparency in climate services
Briefing Note 394 [April 2019]
Australia’s largest hailstorm disaster
Briefing Note 393 [April 2019]
APRA’s increased pressure on major financial institutions to manage the financial risks of climate change
Briefing Note 392 [March 2019]
Why are we not taking climate change more seriously?
Briefing Note 391 [March 2019]
‘Change now or pay later’: RBA’s stark warning on climate change
Briefing Note 390 [March 2019]
Cyber Attack on the Australian Parliament and the Lessons Learned
Briefing Note 389 [February 2019]
Townsville 2019 flood – insights from the field
Briefing Note 388 [February 2019]
To build or not build: that is the Townsville question
Briefing Note 387 [February 2019]
Global Tropical Cyclone Landfalls, 1970 to 2018
Briefing Note 386 [January 2019]
Disclosure of climate-related financial risk
Briefing Note 385 [January 2019]
CPS 234: Will you comply? Information Security standard for APRA regulated organisations
Briefing Note 384 [January 2019]
Extreme weather tops global risks
Briefing Note 383 [January 2019]
Analysis of fatalities attributed to Hurricane Florence in the US.
Briefing Note 382 [December 2018]
Queensland bushfires 2018
Briefing Note 381 [November 2018]
Sydney Harbour beach erosion – actions of the sea or stormwater runoff?
Briefing Note 380 [November 2018]
Key Conclusions of the U.S. National Climate Assessment 2018
Briefing Note 379 [November 2018]
The 2018 Lake Muir Earthquakes
Briefing Note 378 [November 2018]
Mystery of the cargo ships that sink when their cargo suddenly liquefies
Briefing Note 377 [October 2018]
The IPCC Special Report on Global Warming: The Great Divider
Briefing Note 376 [October 2018]
The 28 September Mw 7.5 Sulawesi Earthquake
Briefing Note 375 [September 2018]
Parameters of the Carr Fire Tornado, California, 26 July 2018
Briefing Note 374 [August 2018]
Abrupt climate change in the Anthropocene
Briefing Note 373 [July 2018]
Risk Frontiers’ new earthquake model shows reduced losses for Australia
Briefing Note 372 [July 2018]
Fight over PG&E’s liability in Wine Country fires is just beginning
Briefing 371 [July 2018]
Why isn’t the bond market more worried about climate change?
Briefing Note 370 [July 2018]
A global slowdown of tropical-cyclone translation speed and implications for flooding
Briefing Note 369 [June 2018]
Cyclopters: Drones of the future
Briefing Note 368 [June 2018]
Climate change may lead to bigger atmospheric rivers
Briefing Note 367 [May 2018]
Thwaites and Pine Island Glaciers of Antartica and the Prospect of Rapid Sea Rise
Briefing Note 366 [March 2018]
FS-ISAC 2018 Cybersecurity Trends
Briefing Note 365 [February 2018]
Why is Roman concrete more durable than modern concrete?
Briefing Note 364 [February 2018]
Updated GNS Central New Zealand Earthquake Forecast
Briefing Note 363 [January 2018]
Flood Deaths in the Northern Territory
Briefing Note 362 [January 2018]
Hawaii False Alarm Hints at Thin Line Between Mishap and Nuclear War
Briefing Note 361 [January 2018]
The heat is on: but we’ve been there before
Briefing Note 360 [December 2017]
Scars left by Australia’s undersea landslides reveal future tsunami potential
Briefing Note 359 [December 2017]
Forecast of Increased Earthquakes due to Slowing of Earth’s Rotation
Briefing Note 358 [November 2017]
Changes in Earthquake Hazard Levels in the draft Geoscience Australia National Seismic Hazard Assessment (NSHA18)
Briefing Note 357 [November 2017]
The Mw 7.1 Puebla, Mexico Earthquake of 19 September 2017 – the anniversary of the Mw 8.0 Michoacan earthquake of 1985.
Briefing Note 356 [October 2017]
It doesn’t always take superstorms to get supersurges
Briefing Note 355 [October 2017]
Have we increased our vulnerability to big floods
Briefing Note 354 [September 2017]
Could Sydney be the next Houston?
Briefing Note 353 [September 2017]
Hurricane Irma Meteorological Information
Briefing Note 352 [July 2017]
Earth’s rotation affects the wide world of sports
Briefing Note 351 [July 2017]
Weather-related Natural Disasters: Should we be concerned about a reversion to the mean?
Briefing Note 350 [July 2017]
‘Astounding’: Shifting storms under climate change to worsen coastal perils
Briefing Note 349 [July 2017]
The country’s flood insurance program is sinking. Rescuing it won’t be easy.
Briefing Note 348 [July 2017]
The Grenfell Tower fire of June 14 and the role of Composite Sandwich Panel Cladding
Briefing Note 347 [June 2017]
The Great Hawkesbury Flood turns 150 today
Briefing Note 346 [June 2017]
Floodplain manager skillsets are key to effectively growing community engagement practice in disaster resilience
Briefing Note 345 [June 2017]
A new way to detect tsunamis: cargo ships
Briefing Note 344 [May 2017]
Disaster Risk Management: Insights from US Experience
Briefing Note 343 [April 2017]
When Rising Seas Transform Risk into Certainty
Briefing Note 342 [April 2017]
The 2017 Lismore Flood – Insights from the field
Briefing Note 341 [April 2017]
Damage overview of Severe Tropical Cyclone Debbie in North Queensland
Briefing Note 340 [April 2017]
Flood Risk Perceptions of Lismore Businesses
Briefing Note 339 [March 2017]
Twitter can predict hurricane damage as well as emergency agencies
Briefing Note 338 [February 2017]
Building evidence for risk-based insurance
Briefing Note 337 [January 2017]
Crowds are wise enough to know when other people will get it wrong
Briefing Note 336 [January 2017]
Solving the Puzzle of Hurricane History
Briefing Note 335 [December 2016]
The Mw 7.8 November 14, 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake: Briefing 5
Briefing Note 334 [December 2016]
The Mw 7.9 Taron, PNG Earthquake of 17 December 2016
Briefing Note 333 [December 2016]
Mw 7.8 November 14, 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake, Briefing No.4
Briefing Note 332 [November 2016]
The Mw 7.8 November 14, 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake, Briefing No. 3
Briefing Note 331 [November 2016]
The Mw 7.8 November 14, 2016 Hanmer Springs Earthquake. Briefing No.2
Briefing Note 330 [November 2016]
The Mw 7.8 14 November Hanmer Springs Earthquake, Briefing No. 1
Briefing Note 329 [October 2016]
The 2016 Central Italy Earthquake Secquence
Briefing Note 328 [October 2016]
Insurance against Extreme Events: Pairing Short-Term Incentives with Long-Term Strategies
Briefing Note 327 [October 2016]
UK National Flood Resilience Review
Briefing Note 326 [September 2016]
China is covering its northern plains with wind turbines
Briefing Note 325 [September 2016]
Flameproof houses – scheme that cost homeowners millions in ruins
Briefing Note 324 [September 2016]
Court orders on Byron Bay’s coastal wars
Briefing Note 323 [August 2016]
Brexit and the power of wishful thinking
Briefing Note 322 [July 2016]
Montserrat’s Unexpected Life
Briefing Note 321 [June 2016]
A Toxic Legacy from Firefighting Foams
Briefing Note 320 [June 2016]
Whew
Briefing Note 319 [June 2016]
Coastal impacts of the June 2016 East Coast storm for Sydney
Briefing Note 318 [May 2016]
The Mw 6.0 Northern Territory earthquake of May 2016
Briefing Note 317 [May 2016]
New Orleans: 11 years after Katrina
Briefing Note 316 [April 2016]
Implications of changes to El Nino Southern Oscillation for coastal vulnerability in NSW
Briefing Note 315 [April 2016]
Briefing Note 315Role of Composite Sandwich Panel Cladding in Recent Hi-Rise Building Fires
Briefing Note 314 [March 2016]
Tasmanian energy Crisis – Resilience Case Study
Briefing Note 313 [March 2016]
Big Data, Big Computers, Big Trouble
Briefing Note 312 [March 2, 2016]
March 2, 2016 Earthquake off Sumatra and Breakup of the Australia-India Plate
Briefing Note 311 [February 2016]
Introducing logic into title-race predictions 311
Briefing Note 310 [February 2016]
Gravitational Waves Detected, as Einstein Predicted
Briefing Note 309 [February 2016]
The 5 February 2016 Tainan, Taiwan Earthquake
Briefing Note 308 [February 2016]
World Economic Forums 2016 Global Risks Report
Briefing Note 307 [January 2016]
Jakarta Bombing teaches us the importance of crisis communication in a digital age
Briefing Note 306 [December 2015]
Flood evacuation: never fun, sometimes necessary, always problematic