All the headlines from our Earthquake Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 5 2006 // Minutes after an earthquake struck near the South Pacific nation of Tonga, tsunami warnings began to radiate to countries as far away as Fiji and New Zealand by phone, e-mail and fax.But in the island country closest to...
Apr 19 2006 // Based on 2006 population and property exposures in the San Francisco Bay area, Risk Management Solutions, Newark, Calif., estimates there would be at least $260 billion in damages to residential and commercial exposures if...
Apr 19 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...
Apr 18 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...
Apr 18 2006 // As the nation commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, one of the surviving companies from that disaster — Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co., will be hosting a...
Apr 17 2006 // April 18 marks the 100th anniversary of the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906, a catastrophe that affected thousands of lives, caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage and generated aftershocks in insurance...
Apr 17 2006 // If an earthquake similar to that of the 1906 San Francisco quake were to hit a metropolitan area, today, the losses would be staggering.April 18 marks the 100th anniversary of the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, a...
Apr 17 2006 // $7 billion in workers’ compensation losses.Close to home: 1906 revisited April 18 marks the 100th anniversary of the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, a catastrophe that affected thousands of lives, caused...
Apr 17 2006 // Insurers well-braced for next big California earthquakeWhen the next big earthquake strikes California, it’s unlikely to hurt the insurance industry as much as the last one did. The nation’s largest property...
Apr 13 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services recently noted in two articles, “San Francisco’s Credit Rating Is Strong–But Not Earthquake Proof” and “One Hundred Years Later, California...
Apr 3 2006 // When the next big earthquake strikes California, it’s unlikely to hurt the insurance industry as much as the last one did.The nation’s largest property insurers curtailed their exposure to California quakes a...
Apr 3 2006 // When San Francisco resident Charlie Bott got an offer in the mail recently for earthquake insurance, he stared long and hard at the bottom line. Then he threw it away. “It was way beyond anything you pay for house...
Apr 3 2006 // Ruins of San Francisco’s city hall after the earthquake and fire of 1906. Photo courtesy of Fireman’s Fund.San Francisco street scene after the earthquake and fire of 1906. Photo courtesy of Fireman’s...
Mar 20 2006 // When San Francisco resident Charlie Bott got an offer in the mail recently for earthquake insurance, he stared long and hard at the bottom line. Then he threw it away.“It was way beyond anything you pay for house...
Mar 20 2006 // Californians believe that their state is prone to disasters, but they see little motivation to prepare for nature’s crushing blows, a new poll has found.The poll, sponsored by the Insurance Information Network of...
Mar 20 2006 // “First and foremost, have some sort of plan. It doesn’t have to be a million dollar plan for the smaller operators but communication needs to be spelled out.” – David LossonIn the wake of Hurricane...
Mar 7 2006 // Finding old photographs to mark the centennial of California’s 1906 “Great Quake” and fire was the easy part of Corey Keller’s job as an assistant curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern...
Mar 6 2006 // There are opportunities to make California more earthquake-safe, according to the Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS).At the recent meeting of the Little Hoover Commission, a state oversight agency that...
Mar 2 2006 // Californians believe that their state is prone to disasters, but see little motivation to prepare for nature’s crushing blows, a new poll has found.The poll, sponsored by the Insurance Information Network of...
Feb 24 2006 // There are clear opportunities for California to promote incentives to make homes and businesses safer from earthquakes, according to the Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS).At the Feb. 23 meeting of the Little...