THREAT REPORTS
Beirut port explosion will fail to make political changes
The massive industrial explosion at the port of Beirut, which resulted in the deaths of over 150 people (and counting) injured some 5000 others and destroyed the port and surrounding neighborhoods, is likely to result in a new wave of demonstrations in the coming weeks aimed at the already unpopular government and likely the Hizbollah organization.
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ThrteatRate 2018 Global K&R report
ThreatRate’s Kidnap for Ransom Annual Report offers global and regional kidnapping analytics and trend insights. Data is derived form various credible open sources and is focused only on insurable kidnap for ransom activity and outcomes that would be of interest to our corporate clients, governmental agencies NGOs and our academic collaborators. The report reviews global K&R analytics first, before taking a deeper dive into the three key regions were most kidnapping incidents took place in 2018. Only events that would meet the criteria of insurance providers are recorded. As such, the report does not cover global kidnappings of illegal immigrants by human traffickers or gang wars (“bad on bad”) kidnappings.
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Seismic activity: A danger to travelers
It is not hyperbole to state that not a day passes without some sort of seismic activity. One can, if curious, view a listing here and see that – as an example – on June 25, 2018, there were twenty seismic events worldwide. The frequency is such that there were, on average, nearly 1500 earthquakes a year over the last few years. While some areas – e.g., the significant parts of the interior of the United States such as the Great Lakes region – are relatively quiet from a seismic perspective other regions and countries throughout the world are extremely seismically active.
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