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Saudi Arabia’s first building codes
Saudi Arabia plans to implement its first national building code later in 2007. The Saudi authorities are using the International Building Codes issued in 2003 and 2006 by the International Code Council as the basis for their new code, which will address building risks, especially the threat of earthquakes, ...
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Weather extremes across the world
Record extremes in weather and climate have occurred in many regions across the world during 2007, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). WMO said that it is likely that global land surface temperatures in January and April 2007 were the warmest since records began in 1880. They reached 1.89°C ...
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Disasters bulletin: 5 March – 7 August 2007
Extreme precipitation events dominated the period from March to August 2007 across the world. In the United Kingdom, record rainfall and widespread flooding damaged over 60,000 properties and triggered insured losses estimated at $6 billion. Elsewhere, Pakistan suffered major floods in June, while in late July and early August, the ...
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Active hurricane season 2007 widely forecast
Hurricane forecasters predict Atlantic basin and US landfalling hurricane activity of 75% above the 1950-2006 norm
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Hot weather in 2007
Moderate El Nino could see 2007 become the warmest year on record
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The disasters that failed to happen
Despite dire prognostications during first half of the year, the first 11 months of 2006 at least were comparatively benign in terms of natural and man-made catastrophes. The same may be true of 2007.
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Hurricane, typhoon and hail prone areas
The International Hurricane Research Center in Florida has compiled a list of the 10 most hurricane vulnerable areas in the United States, while CDS Business Mapping has issued a list of the top torna
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Hurricane season 2006
Despite portentous forecasts by most hurricane research groups, the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season proved more of a damp squib than a raging repeat of 2005. The death toll was limited to 11, and econo
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Hurricane tracking and flood mapping tools
British company Ambiental Technical Solutions has launched a free online Hurricane Tracker.
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Call for more spend on flood defences
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has warned that government spending on flood defences in the United Kingdom needs to increase by 10% a year to £750 million by 2011 to deal with the growth in
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Cat bonds at record levels
Catastrophe risk securitisations reached record levels during the first eight months of 2006, and more are expected before the end of the year.
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