The new repository is intended to be an insurance policy for individual countries and also for humanity more generally, should larger -
scale disaster strike (anything from pestilence to an asteroid impact).
This week in Cancun, a researcher from Yale - National University of Singapore (NUS) College in Singapore is presenting a comparison between large -
scale earthquakes and tsunamis in different parts of the world, illustrating how nearly identical natural
disasters can play out very differently depending on where they
strike.