All the headlines from our Earthquake Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 23 2014 // The ground shakes violently and then a wall of salty, brine-shrimp-laden water crashes into the Utah State Prison. The cells of the state’s most dangerous inmates start to flood. Panicked Corrections officers must...
Dec 19 2014 // The sale of a Fireman’s Fund unit from Allianz SE to Ace Ltd. stands to further diminish an iconic U.S. insurance brand that dates to the 1800s.The buyer said Thursday that it will integrate the operation, which...
Dec 17 2014 // The California Earthquake Authority has a heady legislative agenda on-tap for 2015, and Californians without earthquake insurance coverage could be made to foot the bill.The CEA’s CEO, Glenn Pomeroy, on Wednesday...
Dec 16 2014 // California received funding to help begin an earthquake warning system across the state next year that would provide enough time for trains to brake, utilities to shut off gas lines and people to dive under a table until...
Dec 15 2014 // Insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result. Even a casual observer of the U.S. economy since its collapse in 2008 is likely familiar with the terms “toxic debt” and...
Dec 10 2014 // Mayor Eric Garcetti has proposed spending billions of dollars to better protect Los Angeles against a devastating earthquake by strengthening thousands of vulnerable older buildings and fortifying the city’s water...
Dec 8 2014 // The U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude 4.0 earthquake was recorded near Perkins, Okla., in Payne County on Dec. 4.The USGS says the earthquake occurred at 9:54 p.m. about four miles northwest of Perkins. The...
Dec 4 2014 // A brief issued on the August 2014 South Napa earthquake shows damage estimates of insured losses likely to be less than $100 million, yet total damages from the event approached $1 billion.Catastrophe modeling firm Karen...
Dec 3 2014 // Willis Re, the reinsurance division of Willis Group Holdings, the risk adviser, insurance and reinsurance broker, has released a new Japan Tsunami Model to advance the industry’s understanding of catastrophic tsunami...
Dec 2 2014 // A moderate earthquake that struck near Sedona, Ariz. was widely felt in the area. The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude-4.7 temblor struck shortly before 11 p.m. Sunday and was centered seven miles north of Sedona...
Dec 1 2014 // Kansas insurance agencies say they’ve been flooded with queries about earthquake coverage after a 4.8 magnitude temblor struck near Conway Springs on Nov. 12.“We have been getting calls all day,” said...
Nov 26 2014 // A swarm of earthquakes has rattled the Medford area in northern Oklahoma, including a magnitude 4.0 quake. The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquake struck at 8:43 a.m. on Nov. 25. Its epicenter was less than one mile...
Nov 26 2014 // The damage from an overnight earthquake in a mountainous area of central Japan that hosted the 1998 winter Olympics proved more extensive than initially thought.A daylight assessment Sunday found at least 50 homes...
Nov 26 2014 // The U.S. Geological Survey is awarding a $2 million grant to the Center for Earthquake Research and Information at the University of Memphis. The university said the three-year grant will help the center continue to...
Nov 24 2014 // A light earthquake shook the Dallas-Ft. Worth area of North Texas at night on Nov. 22, leaving no known damage or casualties but stirring concern about the potential of the area’s oil and gas fracking industry to...
Nov 18 2014 // Four more earthquakes were reported in south-central Kansas during the weekend. No serious injuries or damage was reported. The U.S. Geological Survey says the largest quake was a 3.8-magnitude earthquake that was centered...
Nov 17 2014 // Kansas insurance agencies say they’ve been flooded with queries about earthquake coverage after the 4.8 magnitude temblor on Nov. 12.“We have been getting calls all day,” Matt Woodall, who works at a...
Nov 14 2014 // An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 shook parts of Kansas and Oklahoma on Nov. 12, the largest since a series of temblors began rattling Kansas a little more than a year ago.The quake’s epicenter was...
Nov 13 2014 // A magnitude 4.0 earthquake shook parts of northwest Montana on Tuesday afternoon, but no damage was reported.The U.S. Geological Survey picked up the earthquake at about 3:33 p.m. The temblor’s epicenter was 31 miles...
Nov 11 2014 // The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded a 4.1 magnitude earthquake near Stillwater, Okla. The USGS says the earthquake was recorded at 2:10 p.m. Sunday five miles southwest of Stillwater, about 45 miles northeast of...