“…We mention the case of floods (Gumbel, 1941;Sveinsson and Boes, 2002;and Friederichs and Hense, 2007), insurance losses (Brodin andKluppelberg, 2006 andCruz, 2002); earthquakes (Sornette et al, 1996;Cornell, 1968;and Burton, 1979); meteorological and climate events (Smith, 1989;Katz and Brown, 1992;Felici et al, 2007;Vitolo et al, 2009b;and Altmann et al, 2006). An extensive review of the techniques and applications related to the EVT is presented in Ghil et al (2011).…”