Big Island Lava Flow Risk Eyed
NU Online News Service, April 14, 3:14 p.m. EDT?Property underwriters for Island of Hawaii have a new tool to determine lava flow risk.[@@]
Boston-based CDC Business Mapping is now offering Hawaii Lava Flow reports on its RiskMeter Online site.
CDS spokesman Dan Munson said certain areas of the island (also known as the Big Island) are prone to volcanic lava flows. "The RiskMeter's Lava Flow report leverages historic and prehistoric data to provide agents and underwriters with a clear picture of how much risk a policy is exposed to," Mr. Munson said
In addition, the report takes into account the larger topographic features of the volcanoes, which will affect the distribution of lava flows, he added.
Mr. Munson said, "Until now, determining whether a new or existing policy location was prone to destruction from lava flows required underwriters and agents to flip through paper-based maps." That process, he said, was both time-consuming and error prone.
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