All the headlines from our Earthquake Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 3 2006 // California earthquake insurance policies issued by the California Earthquake Authority will see rate decreases by an average of 22.1 percent.Approximately 85 percent of CEA policyholders will see their rates reduced...
Jul 3 2006 // California earthquake insurance rates decreasingCalifornia earthquake insurance policies issued by the California Earthquake Authority will see rate decreases by an average of 22.1 percent. Approximately 85 percent of CEA...
Jun 30 2006 // The director of the Arkansas Department of Emergency management has resigned, leaving his post less than a week after a newspaper reported that the agency gave itself failing grades for its preparedness for a large-scale...
Jun 28 2006 // Florida’s Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty has testified to a congressional committee in Washington, D.C. on the need for a national plan to respond to catastrophic events, and posed the question: “Is...
Jun 20 2006 // California earthquake insurance policies issued by the California Earthquake Authority will see rate decreases by an average of 22.1 percent, said Nancy Kinkaid, CEA spokeswoman.Approximately 85 percent of CEA...
Jun 19 2006 // Allstate Insurance Co. says it is dropping earthquake insurance to most of its 407,000 quake customers nationwide as a part of a larger move to reduce exposure to catastrophic losses.Allstate Spokesman Mike Siemienas in...
Jun 8 2006 // Risk Management Solutions (RMS), Newark, Calif., has updated its U.S. and Canada Earthquake models.“Earthquakes east of the Rockies are less common than in the tectonically active West, but can be more severe due to...
Jun 8 2006 // New research suggests earthquake shaking can trigger aftershocks many miles from the epicenter, countering the popular view that they tend to cluster near the main shock.That might help scientists forecast where...
Jun 7 2006 // Swiss Re has obtained $950 million worth of protection against North Atlantic Hurricanes, Europe Windstorms, Californian Earthquakes and Japan Earthquakes through a natural catastrophe protection program named...
Jun 7 2006 // American International Group, Inc. is donating $1 million to support relief efforts in the areas affected by the May 27 earthquake in Indonesia. President and CEO Martin J. Sullivan explained: “The earthquake in...
Jun 5 2006 // Allstate Insurance Co. says it is dropping earthquake insurance to most of its 407,000 quake customers nationwide as a part of a larger move to reduce exposure to catastrophic losses.Allstate Spokesman Mike Siemienas in...
May 24 2006 // The time for Arkansans to prepare for an earthquake is now, federal and state emergency officials say.The United States Geological Survey considers Arkansas among the states with a “high earthquake risk”...
May 22 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has assigned its “BB+” credit ratings to the $160 million class A and B principal-at-risk notes issued by CAT-Mex Ltd.“The transaction,...
May 17 2006 // Boston-based AIR Worldwide Corporation announced that China’s PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited has licensed CLASIC/2™ and CATRADER®, AIR’s catastrophe risk management systems, to manage the...
May 16 2006 // Newark, Calif.-based Risk Management Solutions (RMS) has formed a partnership with the China Earthquake Administration scientific and engineering arm, the Institute of Engineering Mechanics (IEM).“This partnership...
May 8 2006 // One of the most significant natural disasters in U.S. history, the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, rolled to its centennial anniversary April 18, 2006. One hundred years ago in San Francisco, the Earth bounced and the...
May 8 2006 // If an earthquake like the one that devastated San Francisco, Calif., in 1906 struck today, the toll would be staggering: tens of thousands of buildings damaged and hundreds of people dead, according to a new study.The...
May 8 2006 // Sometime in the not-so-distant future, newly constructed buildings will be able to withstand earthquakes of the magnitude that destroyed San Francisco one century ago, scientists say.Working with super-strong materials...
May 8 2006 // One of the most significant natural disasters in U.S. history, the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, rolled to its centennial anniversary April 18, 2006. One hundred years ago in San Francisco, the Earth bounced and the...
May 8 2006 // Engineers working toward earthquake-proof structuresSometime in the not-so-distant future, newly constructed buildings will be able to withstand earthquakes of the magnitude that destroyed San Francisco one century ago,...