All the headlines from our Earthquake Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 5 2017 // Alaska might lose its 24/7 earthquake monitors due to budget cuts.The Juneau Empire reported that as of March 1, more than 25 percent of the Alaska Regional Seismic Network has been offline. Since 2013, staff has decreased...
Apr 18 2017 // All Risks, Ltd. has introduced a new Specialty Property Earthquake Program with an exclusive A.M. Best “A” rated carrier.The Specialty Property Earthquake Program provides difference in conditions insurance,...
Apr 17 2017 // Natural disasters can strike at any time, often without warning, and devastate cities, regions, states and countries.Nature Unleashed, a new exhibit at the Indiana State Museum, aims to help Hoosiers understand why...
Apr 17 2017 // A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against three oil and gas companies over Oklahoma’s ongoing earthquakes.The lawsuit, filed last year on behalf of Sierra Club Oklahoma, asked for a reduction of production...
Apr 13 2017 // An early warning system for earthquakes has been expanded to Oregon and Washington, joining California in testing a prototype that could give people seconds or up to a minute of warning before strong shaking begins.The...
Apr 12 2017 // Natural disasters can strike at any time, often without warning, and devastate cities, regions, states and countries.Nature Unleashed, a new exhibit at the Indiana State Museum, aims to help Hoosiers understand why...
Apr 7 2017 // A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against three oil and gas companies over Oklahoma’s ongoing earthquakes.The lawsuit, filed last year on behalf of Sierra Club Oklahoma, asked for a reduction of production...
Apr 3 2017 // A pair of Congressmen from California in late March introduced the Earthquake Mitigation Incentive and Tax Parity Act of 2017 to exclude incentives for residential seismic retrofits from federal taxation.The act was...
Apr 3 2017 // Oklahoma experienced fewer earthquakes last year compared with 2015 and a recent study of human-induced earthquakes predicts another year of reduced seismicity for the state in 2017.The U.S. Geological Survey warns,...
Mar 31 2017 // Oklahoma experienced fewer earthquakes last year compared with 2015 and a recent study of human-induced earthquakes predicts another year of reduced seismicity for the state in 2017.The U.S. Geological Survey warns,...
Mar 27 2017 // The U.S. Geological Survey reports a magnitude 4.0 earthquake and three smaller temblors have struck Oklahoma.The survey reported that the magnitude 4.0 quake hit on March 25 south of Medford in north-central Oklahoma....
Mar 22 2017 // A pair of Congressmen from California today introduced the Earthquake Mitigation Incentive and Tax Parity Act of 2017 to exclude incentives for residential seismic retrofits from federal taxation.The act was introduced by...
Mar 14 2017 // The leaky dam at Hyatt Lake in Oregon is being shored up this summer as part of a $3.7 million seismic retrofit.The Mail Tribune reported the project will bring the dam east of Ashland into safety compliance after a...
Mar 6 2017 // An Oklahoma-based Native American tribe filed a lawsuit in its own tribal court system Friday accusing several oil companies of triggering the state’s largest earthquake that caused extensive damage to some...
Feb 27 2017 // Updated earthquake concerns for Mossyrock Dam, the tallest structure of its kind in Washington, have prompted Tacoma Power to commit to a new, reduced water level at Riffe Lake that will likely stretch well into the next...
Feb 21 2017 // RMS, the the Newark, Calif.-based catastrophe risk management firm, has received approval from the Colombian insurance regulator, Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia (SFC), to offer catastrophe modeling services to...
Feb 20 2017 // The Environmental Protection Agency told Oklahoma regulators last November to do more to protect the state from a surge in earthquake activity that scientists have linked to the underground disposal of oil and gas...
Feb 15 2017 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) announced that its earthquake model for Colombia has been approved by the country’s insurance regulator, the Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia, for use by domestic...
Feb 13 2017 // Hundreds of top meteorologists and disaster recovery experts will converge on Oklahoma City this week for a national tornado summit, though much of the discussion is expected to focus on temblors, not twisters.The annual...
Feb 10 2017 // The California Earthquake Authority has named Todd Coombes chief insurance and technology officer.The CEA also named Kellie Schneider chief operations officer. The moves follow the retirement at the end of January of Bob...