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The European Commission has activated the Community Mechanism for Civil Protection following major forest fires in Greece. The European tactical reserve of fire fighting aircraft (EUFFTR), which was established this summer to assist Member States facing major fires, assisted in gaining control over the wildfires.
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/civil/prote/mic.htm
Risk Management Solutions has released a suite of 16 new and updated earthquake models for Latin America to meet the growing demand for detailed risk analysis in the region. The models focus on countries with the highest seismic risk and property exposure – including Mexico, which has the most insured earthquake exposure in Latin America – and enable insurers and reinsurers to seamlessly assess risk on a country-by-country and region-wide basis. The Latin America earthquake models have been released in the RMS RiskLink and RiskBrowser 9.0 risk modeling platforms.
www.rms.com
FEMA has announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for the state of Tennessee and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms and flooding during the period of July 15-17, 2009. Terry L. Quarles has been named as the Federal Coordinating Officer for federal recovery operations in the affected area. http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=11828
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World weather impacts
WSI maintains hurricane forecast for 2009
•Date: 25th August 2009• Region: Various |
