Max Wyss, ICES International Centre for Earth Simulation Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland, Philippe Rosset, International Centre for Earth Simulation, Geneva, Switzerland, Sushil Gupta, Risk Modeling and Insurance Division, RMSI, Noida, India, Deepak Chamlagain, Tribhuvan University, Department of Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal, Danijel Schorlemmer, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany and Luis Triveno, World Bank, Washington DC, United States