Risk Management Solutions, the Newark, Calif.-based catastrophe modeler, said today it is releasing new versions of modeling systems for earthquake damage in Japan and U.S. terrorism and workers' compensation impacts.

The products are RiskLink and RiskBrowser 5.1, which the company said is a full upgrade of RMS Japan Earthquake model, incorporating state-of-the-art earthquake modeling methodologies and the latest research on earthquake hazards in that country.

RMS said it is the first catastrophe model to incorporate research from the Japan National Seismic Hazard Maps, published in March, 2005.

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