All the headlines from our Earthquake Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 22 2019 // The governing board of the California Earthquake Authority has voted to increase the number of policyholders eligible for a $3,000 retrofit grant.The CEA board voted to make the grant available to roughly 30,000 CEA...
Jul 19 2019 // Nevada’s governor and congressional delegation are pointing to earthquakes this month in the California desert and calling for the U.S. Energy Department look again at seismic risks of burying the nation’s most...
Jul 15 2019 // Two earthquakes shook the Puget Sound region in Washington state early Friday morning, with the temblors felt into British Columbia and across the Cascade Mountains into the eastern part of the state.There were no...
Jul 15 2019 // Few Nevada residents and businesses have earthquake coverage, but insurance officials said they are expecting interest to increase after the two California earthquakes that rattled the region.The magnitude 6.4 and...
Jul 12 2019 // The recent earthquakes that pummeled neighborhoods in Ridgecrest and Trona in Southern California have led to reports that some insurers and agents may be declining to write earthquake policies in various areas of the...
Jul 10 2019 // The powerful Mojave Desert earthquakes that rocked California ended a years-long lull in major seismic activity and raised new interest in an early warning system being developed for the West Coast.The ShakeAlert system is...
Jul 10 2019 // The number of Oklahoma earthquakes registering a magnitude of 3.0 or greater is on pace to decline for the fourth straight year after state regulators began directing oil and natural gas producers to close some wells and...
Jul 9 2019 // Visits to the California Earthquake Authority website reportedly increased by nearly 10 times normal following the largest earthquakes to hit Southern California in 20 years.The quakes over 4th of July holiday weekend were...
Jul 9 2019 // Shaken residents are cleaning up from two of the biggest earthquakes to rattle California in decades as scientists warn that both should serve as a wake-up call to be ready when the long-dreaded “Big One”...
Jul 9 2019 // A new report issued by the Missouri Department of Insurance shows that earthquake insurance coverage in the highest risk areas of Missouri has dropped to just under 14 percent.According to the department, the Earthquake...
Jul 8 2019 // Officials in two damaged desert communities worked over the weekned to repair roads and restore utilities following the largest earthquake in Southern California in nearly two decades.Ridgecrest and neighboring Trona were...
Jul 8 2019 // The two major earthquakes that hit Southern California should alert people across the nation of the need to be prepared for natural disasters, the state’s governor said as officials expressed relief that the damages...
Jul 7 2019 // RIDGECREST, Calif. — Crews in Southern California assessed damage to cracked and burned buildings, broken roads, leaking water and gas lines and other infrastructure Saturday after the largest earthquake the region has...
Jul 3 2019 // The state agency in charge of earthquake study and preparation, as well as monitoring mining efforts in Oregon, could be shut down after going over budget for the second time in four years. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports...
Jul 1 2019 // Earthquake coverage is available mostly from private insurance companies. In California homeowners can also get coverage from the California Earthquake Authority (CEA), a privately funded, publicly managed organization....
Jun 24 2019 // The U.S. Geological Survey a magnitude 5.5 earthquake has hit near the Pacific coast of Northern California. The agency says the earthquake struck at 8:53 p.m. on Saturday at a spot 17.3 miles southwest of Scotia, a town...
Jun 21 2019 // Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) announced the release of its updated earthquake model for New Zealand.This model incorporates the latest scientific research after the 2010–2011 Canterbury earthquake...
Jun 12 2019 // Federal geologists say an earthquake of an estimated magnitude 4.0 hit Monday morning just northeast of Cleveland in Lake Erie, shaking up residents who flooded dispatch centers with calls.There were no immediate reports...
Jun 5 2019 // Scientists at the College of Charleston are getting ready for a project to map cracks deep underground and get a better idea where earthquakes may happen in South Carolina.The project will fly a plane in a grid pattern...
May 29 2019 // A.M. Best said it does not foresee a major impact to the domestic insurance markets in Peru or Ecuador following a significant earthquake centered in Peru that also affected several provinces in neighboring Ecuador.On May...