at risk from earthquakes

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• Earthquakes in Guatemala — Earthquakes and tremors are relatively frequent occurrences in Guatemala. The country lies in a major fault zone, known as the Motagua and Chixoy Polochic fault complex, which cuts across Guatemala and forms the tectonic boundary between the… …   Wikipedia

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• Risk pool — A risk pool is one of the forms of risk management mostly practised by insurance companies. Under this system, insurance companies come together to form a pool, which can provide protection to insurance companies against catastrophe risks such as …   Wikipedia

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• Nankai megathrust earthquakes — The Nankai megathrust earthquakes are great earthquakes that occur along the fault that forms the plate interface between the subducting Philippine Sea Plate and the overriding Amurian Plate (part of the Eurasian Plate), which dips beneath… …   Wikipedia

• Cresta, Catastrophe Risk Evaluating and Standardizing Target Accumulations — CRESTA (Catastrophe Risk Evaluation and Standardizing Target Accumulations) was founded as a joint project of Swiss Reinsurance Company, Gerling Konzern Globale Reinsurance Company, and Munich Reinsurance Company. CRESTA has set itself the aim of …   Wikipedia

• Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium — (NRRC) was launched by the Government of Nepal (GoN) and a group of international organizations working to promote the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) in 2009. It exists to bridge the spectrum of development and… …   Wikipedia

• Disaster risk reduction — (DRR) is a systematic approach to identifying, assessing and reducing the risks of disaster. It aims to reduce socio economic vulnerabilities to disaster as well as dealing with the environmental and other hazards that trigger them: here it has… …   Wikipedia

• uninsurable risk — ➔ risk1 * * * uninsurable risk UK US noun [C or U] INSURANCE ► a situation that you cannot protect yourself against by buying insurance because it is impossible to calculate how likely it is to happen, or how much damage it will cause: »In many… …   Financial and business terms

• List of oracular statements from Delphi — Pythia was the priestess presiding over the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi. There are more than 500 supposed Oracular statements which have survived from various sources referring to the oracle at Delphi. Many are anecdotal, and have survived as… …   Wikipedia