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Cascadia Quake Potentially More Damaging than San Andreas or Japan’s Tōhoku

• John Cornelison
• 3/11/12

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  Cascadia , California , Legislation , Earthquakes , Funding , Japan , Study

In “Quake catastrophe like Japan's could hit Pacific Northwest, new data show” M. Alex Johnson of msnbc.com also reports on last month’s reports at the American Association for the Advancement of Science – noting that the Cascadia quake has numerous parallels with Japan’s Tōhoku disaster one year ago.

Climate change costs mount as natural catastrophe losses reach a 4 year high

• John Cornelison
• 1/4/17

A number of devastating earthquakes and powerful storms made 2016 the costliest twelve months for natural catastrophe losses in the last four years. Losses totaled US$ 175bn, a good two-thirds more than in the previous year, and very nearly as high as the figure for 2012 (US$ 180bn). The share of uninsured losses – the so-called protection or insurance gap – remained substantial at around 70%. Almost 30% of the losses, some US$ 50bn, were insured.

Tracy Connelly is Seattle OEM’s new Community Planning Coordinator

• John Cornelison
• 7/27/12