All the headlines from our Earthquake Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 21 2012 // The business of selling earthquake insurance to homeowners may have just gotten a bit easier.The California Earthquake Authority has launched its annual “Marketing Value Program,” in which the quasi-private...
Feb 21 2012 // There aren’t very many rooms in the world that can successfully reproduce the devastating effects of an earthquake. But come May 1, a laboratory on the University of Alabama campus may be able to do just that.Work is...
Feb 20 2012 // Utah is selling new maps that show the shaking intensity of earthquakes for the west half of Salt Lake County.The set of 10 maps also spotlights the risks of landslides, rock falls, floods, radon gas and other hazards in...
Feb 17 2012 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide has released a new report – “Understanding Earthquake Risk in Japan Following the Tohoku-Oki Earthquake of March 11, 2011.” The report stresses that the “M9.0...
Feb 16 2012 // The California Earthquake Authority, the state’s quasi-private earthquake insurer, is planning to pay furlough back wages to current and former agency employees who lost salary to the policy, the Sacramento Bee is...
Feb 14 2012 // A small earthquake has shaken a rural area of Northern California about 90 miles north of San Francisco, but there are no reports of any damages or injuries.The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude-4.4 quake struck...
Feb 13 2012 // A six-story building that collapsed and killed 115 people in last year’s New Zealand earthquake was made of weak columns and concrete and did not meet standards when it was built, the government said Thursday.The...
Feb 13 2012 // The Swiss Seismological Service said a moderate earthquake shook Switzerland with the epicenter in the northcentral canton Zug and Lake Zurich area.The Zurich-based service said Sunday that the magnitude-4.2 quake could be...
Feb 7 2012 // Rescuers dug with picks and shovels trying to reach dozens of people trapped under houses collapsed by a strong earthquake Monday that shook a central Philippine island and set off landslides.At least 13 people were killed...
Feb 7 2012 // Eight states are expected to take part in an earthquake drill today that will be conducted throughout the central United States on the 200th anniversary of the 1812 New Madrid earthquakes. The event is called the 2012...
Feb 6 2012 // Scientists say a minor earthquake has shaken the Utah Valley, but apparently causing no injuries or property damage. The University of Utah Seismograph Stations report the magnitude 3.7 quake occurred around 4:27 a.m....
Feb 6 2012 // In 2011, the mining insurance market was not only hit by $2.7 billion in natural catastrophe losses, but over 60 operational losses totaling $835 million. The $3.5 billion total estimate of losses facing mining insurers...
Feb 3 2012 // Utah is selling new maps that show the shaking intensity of earthquakes for the west half of Salt Lake County.The set of 10 maps also spotlights the risks of landslides, rock falls, floods, radon gas and other hazards in...
Feb 2 2012 // Haiti and the neighboring Dominican Republic could be in for a period of periodic powerful earthquakes, according to a recent scientific study.The study says Haiti’s 7.0-magnitude earthquake two years ago is likely...
Feb 2 2012 // The risk to public health from a severe nuclear power plant accident in the United States is “very small” because reactor operators should have time to prevent core damage and reduce the release of radioactive...
Jan 31 2012 // For decades, the people who oversaw Fairbanks Memorial Hospital shared a comforting thought about the building—even if a powerful earthquake struck, they were confident it would remain standing.But in the past few years,...
Jan 30 2012 // A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 jolted eastern Japan on Saturday morning, but there were no immediate reports of injury or damage and no tsunami warning was issued.The focus of the tremor was 20 km...
Jan 26 2012 // Insurance Company of the West (ICW) and WKFC Underwriting Managers have announced a continued expansion of the relationship between the firms for commercial earthquake insurance.The partnership between ICW Group and WKFC...
Jan 25 2012 // A new study is warning that the Tokyo region has a 70 percent chance of being hit directly by a powerful magnitude-7 earthquake within four years.The study by University of Tokyo seismologists bases the estimate on an...
Jan 23 2012 // An expert task force convened by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission called Japan’s nuclear disaster “unacceptable” and concluded that nuclear power plants in the U.S. need better protections for rare,...