All the headlines from our Earthquake Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Oct 1 2012 // A small earthquake and a subsequent aftershock lent an element of “surprise” to the overnight hours on Sept. 29 in a suburb west of Dallas.Authorities reported no serious damage from late-night quakes, just...
Sep 10 2012 // Survivors of a series of earthquakes that killed 81 people and injured more than 800 in a mountainous area of southwestern China were desperately waiting for more aid to arrive Sunday as jolting aftershocks kept fears high...
Sep 6 2012 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, on September 5 at 8:42 AM local time, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck a sparsely populated region of western Costa Rica approximately 150 km [94 miles] west of San...
Aug 23 2012 // A weak earthquake has hit the Colorado mountains. The National Earthquake Information Center says the quake Tuesday afternoon registered a preliminary magnitude of 3.3. It was centered north of Basalt and south of...
Aug 23 2012 // Fitch Ratings has issued a statement which points out that the “spate of Asia-Pacific catastrophes in the past two years have prompted reinsurers to take stock of their existing portfolio and re-evaluate their...
Aug 16 2012 // Most people would think earthquakes are rare in Arizona. But a new study published by Arizona State University researchers found nearly 1,000 earthquakes rattling the state over a three-year period. A graduate student in...
Aug 8 2012 // A series of small earthquakes and aftershocks hit Southern California on Tuesday and Wednesday. A 4.4 magnitude earthquake struck Yorba Linda, Calif. at 11:23 p.m. on Tuesday, with several small aftershocks following. Then...
Aug 3 2012 // The California Earthquake Authority, which has been lobbying Congress to establish a federal backstop to its debt financing, is proving once again that it can do plenty fine on its own. The quasi-public agency just...