All the headlines from our Earthquake Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 22 2013 // U.S. Geological Survey reports a small earthquake was recorded near the Mississippi County town of Manila, Ark. The county sheriff’s office says no injuries or damage are reported. The Geological Survey says the 2.5...
Feb 6 2013 // A powerful 8.0 magnitude earthquake set off a tsunami that killed at least five people in a remote part of the Solomon Islands on Wednesday and triggered evacuations across the South Pacific as island nations issued...
Jan 28 2013 // With the anniversary of the Northridge Quake in mid-January, earthquake coverage was on a lot of minds.Jan. 17 marked the 19th Anniversary of an event many Southern Californians well remember. On that day in 1994, the...
Jan 3 2013 // The figures for natural catastrophse that occurred in 2012 are “dominated by weather extremes in the USA,” according to a report from Munich Re. The reinsurers said the U.S. “accounted for a higher...
Dec 6 2012 // A new report says earthquakes in Colorado and elsewhere may have been caused by a drilling procedure to dispose of wastewater. In a report announced Wednesday, geophysicists say an increase in earthquakes on the Raton...
Nov 28 2012 // Officials in eastern Kentucky are conducting tests on a dam to see if a recent 4.3 magnitude earthquake centered near Blackey enlarged the flow of a small stream at the bottom of the structure.Inspectors from the Kentucky...
Nov 28 2012 // A new report from Lloyd’s notes that the “the world has been battered by natural catastrophes in recent years, revealing a serious gap between the economic cost of natural catastrophes and the levels of insured...
Nov 15 2012 // Impact Forecasting, the catastrophe model development center of excellence at Aon Benfield, announced the launch of new Algeria and Morocco earthquake model to achieve more reliable estimates of the earthquake losses to...
Nov 14 2012 // Geologists say the 4.3 magnitude earthquake that shook eastern Kentucky last weekend was too deep to be induced by the region’s underground mining activity.The epicenter was about 10 miles west of Whitesburg, in the...
Nov 13 2012 // The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) and the Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of The University of the West Indies have entered into a partnership to enhance the Accelerometric Network in the Eastern...
Nov 8 2012 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, at 10:35:50 UTC on Nov 7, 2012 an earthquake estimated at a magnitude of 7.4 occurred at a depth of 41.6 km (25.9 miles) about 15 miles off the coastal town of...
Nov 6 2012 // The Denali Fault earthquake only rumbled for about 3 minutes when it shook Interior Alaska a decade ago, but some of the reverberations of that powerful seismic event are still being felt today.The 7.9 magnitude quake,...
Nov 5 2012 // It’s interesting to see what’s on people’s minds as potential catastrophes develop.Google’s top search on Oct. 29 as Hurricane Sandy approached the East Coast were for the “Weather...
Nov 5 2012 // A day before more than 9 million people in California took part in a massive nationwide earthquake drill in mid-October, U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones stood in a room full of risk professionals in the San...
Nov 5 2012 // More than 9.4 million Californians reportedly practiced the “Drop, Cover, and Hold On” drill in mid-October in preparation for a major earthquake.The 2012 Great California ShakeOut involved record numbers of...
Oct 30 2012 // The subject of Hurricane Sandy dominated a conference of insurance professionals in Southern California on Tuesday – it was heavily used in speeches, a constant topic on panels and it even made its way into meeting...
Oct 28 2012 // A powerful M7.7 earthquake struck British Columbia’s north-central coast on Saturday, Oct. 27, with shaking felts far away as Edmonton and Yukon.The United States Geological Survey said that the earthquake, which...
Oct 18 2012 // A day before more than 9 million people in California took part in a massive nationwide earthquake drill on Thursday, U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones stood in a room full of risk professionals in the San...
Oct 18 2012 // The earthquake that rattled southern Maine was felt in New England states as far away as Connecticut, but caused no apparent damage or injuries.Patrons of a pizza parlor near the epicenter of Tuesday’s quake...
Oct 16 2012 // Nearly 600,000 Virginia residents are expected to participate in a multistate earthquake drill this week. Gov. Bob McDonnell says many people didn’t know about earthquake safety when a magnitude-5.8 quake hit Louisa...