All the headlines from our Earthquake Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 1 2016 // The California Earthquake Authority won the SAMMY Award for “overall Best of Show” at the 58th Annual Insurance Marketing & Communications Association Showcase Awards Gala.The SAMMY Award was voted on by...
Jun 28 2016 // The model’s seismicity analysis covers areas with seismic activity that may affect India, including the countries of Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh, AIR said, noting that the model assesses damage and loss...
Jun 20 2016 // Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) said it has “significantly expanded” its earthquake and typhoon models for Southeast Asia.The new earthquake model features the ability to account for the...
Jun 20 2016 // Oklahoma’s top insurance regulator says there’s a definite lack of competition in the state’s earthquake insurance market and has ordered insurers to change the way they file rates for the coverage in the...
Jun 9 2016 // More than a half million Missourians are at risk because of the contracting earthquake insurance market, Missouri Department of Insurance Director John M. Huff said during the recent Heartland Insurance Symposium in Kansas...
Jun 8 2016 // Oklahoma’s top insurance regulator has determined that there’s a definite lack of competition in the earthquake insurance market in Oklahoma and ordered insurers to change the way they file rates for the...
Jun 6 2016 // Three Oklahoma energy companies want a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit demanding they reduce injection volumes at wastewater disposal wells that could be triggering earthquakes.The lawsuit was filed in February by...
Jun 6 2016 // At a May 24 hearing on the competitiveness of earthquake insurance coverage in Oklahoma state insurance regulators released data showing four insurance companies hold 55 percent of the market.That’s a concern for...
May 25 2016 // Data released at a May 24 hearing to determine the competitiveness of earthquake insurance coverage in Oklahoma shows that four insurance companies have 55 percent of the market in the state.That’s a concern for...
May 25 2016 // Oklahoma regulators grappling with a massive increase in small earthquakes in the state linked to growing oil and gas production said on May 24 they were concerned with spiking rates for earthquake insurance coverage and...
May 25 2016 // A major fault off the Oregon Coast is expected to produce an earthquake, and transportation officials say preparing for that event needs to be a top priority.The Medford Mail Tribune reported a Cascadia Subduction Zone...
May 24 2016 // In testimony submitted to Oklahoma’s insurance commissioner, the American Insurance Association (AIA) has suggested that the state look at mitigation, rather than further regulation of the earthquake insurance market...
May 23 2016 // Most people aren’t prepared for the big one.If there was one common theme at a three-day earthquake conference in downtown Long Beach, Calif., that was it. The National Earthquake Conference that took place in early...
May 23 2016 // As the number of earthquakes in Oklahoma exploded into the hundreds in the last few years, nearly a dozen insurance companies moved to limit their exposure, often at the expense of homeowners, a Reuters examination has...
May 18 2016 // California Gov. Jerry Brown will seek state funds to help establish a system that issues alerts that an earthquake is occurring – with an eye on rolling out a limited system by 2018, a newspaper reported this week.The...
May 17 2016 // An earthquake has rattled parts of central Oklahoma.The U.S. Geological Survey says the 3.8 magnitude earthquake was recorded at 9:59 a.m. Sunday about two miles northeast of Luther, located about 28 miles northeast of...
May 13 2016 // As the number of earthquakes in Oklahoma exploded into the hundreds in the last few years, nearly a dozen insurance companies moved to limit their exposure, often at the expense of homeowners, a Reuters examination has...
May 13 2016 // Palomar Specialty Insurance Co., in partnership with Arrowhead General Insurance Agency, Inc. and TriCoast Insurance Services, LLC, has expanded its Value Select Residential Earthquake Insurance Program into Oregon and...
May 5 2016 // Most people aren’t prepared for the big one.If there was one common theme at a three-day earthquake conference in downtown Long Beach, Calif., that was it. The National Earthquake Conference, which runs through...
May 5 2016 // The global economy suffered the worst April natural disaster losses for five years, according to Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team.Earthquakes, convective storms and flooding...