NU Online News Service, April 1, 3:13 p.m. EDT
The Tohoku earthquake in Japan was a seismological "black swan"—an event beyond the realm of regular expectations, according to catastrophe-risk modelers.
During a webcast produced by reinsurance broker and capital management advisor TigerRisk Partners, all three of the standard risk modelers commented on the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that rocked northern Japan on March 11.
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