All the headlines from our Earthquake Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
May 7 2019 // Two small earthquakes have hit southwest Alaska, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed. At 1:43 p.m. Sunday, a magnitude 3.4 earthquake hit a spot in the Gulf of Alaska. The agency says the earthquake had an epicenter 147.4...
Apr 25 2019 // A bill to enable the California Earthquake Authority to expand mitigation programs cleared its first hurdle this week when it passed the Senate Insurance Committee.The Resilient Homes Initiative, Senate Bill 254, was...
Apr 23 2019 // California’s technology sector has had a tough year with state and federal policymakers, to say nothing of the general public. Concerns about the size and scope of internet firms have led to a “techlash,”...
Apr 23 2019 // A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck the Philippines on Tuesday, hitting the central region hours after at least 15 people were killed by a tremor in the main Luzon island.Fourteen of the dead were from Pampanga province,...
Apr 15 2019 // The California Earthquake Authority’s governing board has voted to sponsor and support the Resilient Homes Initiative, a bill aimed at helping Californians prepare for earthquakes by restructuring the CEA to...
Apr 15 2019 // A magnitude 5.3 earthquake hit the west side of the Big Island of Hawaii on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed.The quake hit about 5 p.m. and had an epicenter about 15 miles southwest of Kailua-Kona, a city of...
Apr 11 2019 // An earthquake that struck Tuesday in a rural area near the Idaho-Montana border was felt as far away as Helena and was followed by multiple aftershocks, but no damage was immediately reported.The main quake struck just...
Apr 5 2019 // Creation of a catastrophic wildfire risk pool is emerging as the most likely option as California lawmakers seek to protect the solvency of investor-owned utilities from record payouts for fire damages.PG&E filed for a...
Apr 2 2019 // A bill to that would enable the California Earthquake Authority to expand mitigation programs is making its way through state Legislature.State Sen. Majority Leader Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, this week released the details...