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<\/a>Reported Natural Disasters 1950-2011 from CRED<\/p><\/div>\n
While the CRED graph to the right bundled North and South America, the Munich Re data for 2012<\/a> does not and shows how many natural disasters happened on our continent last year \u2013 roughly two events every three days.\u00a0\u00a0 I think it\u2019s thought-provoking that of the 10 most expensive disasters last year<\/a>, six affected the United States and nine of the ten were weather-related.\u00a0\u00a0 I also find it interesting that, for those six disasters, the insured losses were about half of the actual losses.\u00a0\u00a0 (When did you last<\/i> check your insurance coverage?<\/i>)<\/p>\n Some additional references you might find interesting:<\/p>\n Like taxes, we can always be sure that there will be another disaster. \u00a0 What follows are some data on 2012 but, as I write, the 2013 tally seems on its way with the increasing number of communities in Canada declaring disasters due to rising water levels from the thaw.\u00a0\u00a0 The sad, and somewhat irritating, fact is that many of these events are predictable with predictable consequences.\u00a0\u00a0 It is notoriously difficult to maintain sustained public (and, therefore, political) interest in high-consequence, low-probability events. \u00a0 However,\u00a0 something like the annual thaw flooding or the annual hurricane season should not have anyone, least of all politicians, looking wide-eyed in shock. We can … Continue reading \n
\n–\u00a02012 Disasters map from Munich Re
\n<\/a>–\u00a02012 Continental share of events
\n<\/a>–\u00a02012 10 costliest events<\/a><\/li>\n
\n– 2013 Political Risk Map<\/a><\/li>\n
\n– Global Risks 2013
\n<\/a> – Video on resilience special report<\/a>
\n– Online risk-data explorer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"