Tropical Depression Seven formed in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, one of three systems the U.S. National Hurricane Center was monitoring, but none were so far expected to threaten energy production in the Gulf of Mexico. The NHC …
Yesterday Danielle was still classified by the National Hurricane Center in Miami as tropical storm. But the NHC’s latest bulletin, issued at 5:00 a.m. AST, confirms that it has now strengthened into a category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. …
The permanent disaster aid program in the 2008 Farm Bill was intended to spare Congress from having to scrape up extra money every time a drought, flood or hurricane struck farm country, but growers in the South claim the plan …
Southern California is overdue for a major earthquake, according to UC Irvine and Arizona State University researchers who have charted temblors along the San Andreas fault stretching back 700 years. The findings, to be published in the Sept. 1 issue …
On Saturday morning the National Hurricane Center in Miami issued its first bulletin on “Tropical depression Six.” By Monday morning the depression had morphed into Danielle the fourth named storm of the current season, and the NHC warned that it …
Following the devastating peat land and forest fires in Russia and the resultant smog in Moscow and surrounding regions, Marsh has urged affected and potentially affected organizations to “review their current business continuity plans and insurance provision.” According to Marsh, …
More than $12 million in federal disaster aid has been approved to help recovery efforts in four counties in West Virginia hit by severe storms in June. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Wednesday that the assistance includes home repair …
Risk Management Solutions has completed work on a model dealing with Australia’s three greatest perils. RMS announced the phase one release of its “Australia Severe Convective Storm Model®, covering damage from hailstorm, water ingress, downburst winds, and tornadoes.” These storms …
Louisiana has done a good job upgrading its building code requirements in the five years since Hurricane Katrina, but Alabama and Mississippi have not, according to a new report from the Institute for Business and Home Safety. “While there have …
A Colombian airliner carrying 132 people crashed and broke into pieces while landing during a storm on the Caribbean resort island of San Andres Monday, but only one person died in what police called “a miracle.” Authorities said 114 passengers …
