All the headlines from our Earthquake Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 1 2016 // Twenty years ago today insurers began selling California Earthquake Authority policies – two years off of a hard lesson learned by the state’s residents and its insurance market.But 20 years later are we any better...
Dec 1 2016 // RMS and a group of actuarial societies each rolled out new products designed to respectively help measure risks related to earthquake and weather events.In RMS’ case, the catastrophe modeling firm gained regulatory...
Dec 1 2016 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.California is typically the first place that comes to mind when one thinks of earthquake activity in the U.S. In recent years, however, the central U.S. – especially...
Nov 28 2016 // The U.S. Geological Survey on Sunday recorded a magnitude 3.4 earthquake in north-central Oklahoma just two days after a 4.3 magnitude temblor struck in the same area.The 3.4 magnitude quake was recorded at 8:34 a.m. on...
Nov 23 2016 // Two earthquakes recorded within one minute of each other have shaken an area in north-central Oklahoma near the site near of a key oil hub.The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquakes occurred Nov. 22 in Cushing in...
Nov 22 2016 // A white Chevy Suburban with “Railroad Commission of Texas” emblazoned on its side rolled north on Interstate 35. Behind the wheel sat Milton Rister, the commission’s director.Trim and balding, Rister was...
Nov 22 2016 // A massive earthquake off the coast of British Columbia has the potential to cause widespread failure among insurance companies and trigger a domino effect across the financial sector, according to a Conference Board of...
Nov 22 2016 // A powerful earthquake rocked northern Japan early on Tuesday, briefly disrupting cooling functions at a nuclear plant and generating a small tsunami that hit the same Fukushima region devastated by a 2011 quake, tsunami...
Nov 21 2016 // Residents of a town hit by Oklahoma’s strongest earthquake have filed a class-action lawsuit against dozens of energy companies, accusing them of triggering destructive temblors by injecting wastewater from oil and...
Nov 21 2016 // The Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma has filed a lawsuit against the federal government to void drilling permits for oil and natural gas wells on tribal land that the tribe alleges cause earthquakes in northern Oklahoma.The...
Nov 21 2016 // Nearly 300 damage claims have been submitted since Oklahoma’s largest earthquake in September, but only four of those claims have been paid.An analysis of Oklahoma Insurance Department data by the Tulsa World shows...
Nov 21 2016 // The 5.0 magnitude earthquake that struck near the oil and gas storage hub of Cushing, Oklahoma, on Nov. 6 put the nation on alert to the vulnerability of the country’s oil reserves to the significant increase in...
Nov 21 2016 // Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is directing several state agencies to work together to prepare for a coordinated plan in case of a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami. The directive, which was issued earlier this month,...
Nov 21 2016 // A large earthquake along the San Andreas fault impacting both Northern and Southern California at the same time could wreak much more havoc than most may believe.Such an event, once considered impossible up until...
Nov 18 2016 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide released its initial estimates of industry insured losses from the earthquake that struck New Zealand’s South Island early this week, putting a range of $762 million to $3.5...
Nov 15 2016 // A large earthquake along the San Andreas fault impacting both Northern and Southern California at the same time could wreak much more havoc than most may believe.Such an event, once considered impossible up until...
Nov 15 2016 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Recent changes in earthquake hazard science in California are transforming the way we think about managing earthquake risk. The Uniform California Earthquake Rupture...
Nov 14 2016 // The 5.0 magnitude earthquake that struck near the oil and gas storage hub of Cushing, Oklahoma, on Nov. 6 put the nation on alert to the vulnerability of the country’s oil reserves to the significant increase in...
Nov 14 2016 // New Zealand was rocked by a powerful earthquake early Monday that killed two people and caused extensive damage to roads and businesses, but avoided the widespread destruction caused by a 2011 quake that killed 185 people....
Nov 8 2016 // Oklahoma’s oil and gas regulator plans to shut some disposal wells and reduce the volume of others as its initial response to Sunday’s earthquake near the oil hub of Cushing.“Other plans are being...