Latest Earthquake Headlines
All the headlines from our Earthquake Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Magnitude 5.8 Earthquake Hits Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture-Kyodo
Sep 20 2013 // An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 struck Fukushima Prefecture in Japan early Friday morning, Kyodo reported, quoting the Japan Meteorological Agency. No tsunami warning has been issued, the news agency...
River Floods, Earthquakes are Highest Risk to Urban Areas: Swiss Re Report
Sep 18 2013 // River floods top the list of risks posing dangers to more people than any other natural catastrophe, according to a new Swiss Re report, which “benchmarks” the natural catastrophe risks faced by 1.7 billion...
Insurance Pros in Politics: Cooley Masters Quake Insurance
Sep 11 2013 // When it comes to mixing insurance and politics, the two might as well be one in the same for California Assemblyman Ken Cooley. Cooley, D-Rancho Cordova, started his career in the 1970s working on earthquake issues with a...
Hotspot Volcanoes: Earthquake Risk in Hawaii
Sep 9 2013 // It was June 15, 1990, when Mount Pinatubo, on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, awoke from its 500-year slumber to produce the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century. Nearly a year before, Luzon was...
Aon’s Impact Forecasting Launches Models for E. Africa Quakes, Mexico Floods
Sep 3 2013 // Impact Forecasting, the catastrophe model development center of excellence at Aon Benfield, has launched two new models: an earthquake model for East Africa and a new flood scenario-based model for Mexico reinsurers. East...
Hollywood Groups Sue To Stop Huge Development, Earthquake Concerns
Aug 30 2013 // A coalition of residents who live in famed Hollywood neighborhoods filed a lawsuit this week to stop a $654 million skyscraper project from rising just down the hill from the landmark Hollywood Sign because of earthquake...
Arkansas Homeowners Settle Suit Charging Fracking Wastewater Caused Quakes
Aug 29 2013 // Five Arkansas residents who sued two oil companies claiming wastewater disposal wells from fracking caused earthquakes that damaged their homes settled with the companies for an undisclosed sum on Aug. 28, according to...
Arkansas Lawsuits Test Fracking Wastewater Link to Quakes
Aug 27 2013 // Tony Davis, a 54-year-old construction worker in central Arkansas, said he welcomed the boom in natural gas drilling that brought jobs and new businesses to his hometown starting about a decade ago. But that was before the...
Los Angeles Councilman Proposes Quake Building Inventory
Aug 22 2013 // A Los Angeles councilman is urging the city to find and list the potentially thousands of buildings that could collapse in an earthquake. Tom LaBonge is proposing a city inventory of so-called “soft-story”...
Earthquake Simulator Shakes Alaskan Complacency
Aug 20 2013 // An 8.0 magnitude earthquake sounds like a freight train and feels like the worst-ever air turbulence. Bookshelves tumble. Computers and television sets crash to the floor. It’s a struggle to stay upright. Even a fake...
CCRIF Countries Renew Catastrophe Insurance Policies for 2013/14
Aug 20 2013 // The sixteen member governments of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) have renewed their hurricane and earthquake insurance for the 2013/14 policy year that started June first. The bulletin noted:...
San Francisco Bay Area Building Demolition Fuels Quake Study
Aug 19 2013 // It took just seconds for a 13-story building overlooking San Francisco Bay to implode, spewing smoke and chunks of concrete as it crumbled into a heap of rubble. But U.S. Geological Survey scientist Rufus Catchings was...
Central New Zealand Shaken by M6.5 Earthquake: AIR Analysis
Aug 19 2013 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, homes and roads in central New Zealand were damaged by a M6.5 earthquake on Friday, August 16, at 2:31 p.m. local time (2:31 a.m., UTC), but no serious injuries have...
Aon Benfield’s July Cat Report Confirms Canada’s 2nd Billion Dollar Loss
Aug 8 2013 // According to the latest Global Catastrophe Recap report from Impact Forecasting, the catastrophe model development center of excellence at Aon Benfield, the “strong thunderstorms” that “brought record...
Why Scientists Are Causing Earthquakes
Aug 2 2013 // Earthquakes never occur when needed so a team led by Johns Hopkins structural engineers is shaking up a building themselves in the name of science and safety. Using massive moving platforms and an array of sensors and...
Cat Bond Issuance Hits 6-Year High: Aon Benfield ILS Report
Aug 1 2013 // Aon Benfield Securities, the investment banking division of global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor Aon Benfield, has issued it latest report – The Insurance-Linked Securities Second Quarter 2013 Update...
Oklahoma Agency Working to Reduce Earthquake Risks
Jul 24 2013 // The Oklahoma Geological Survey has begun work on plans to reduce the risk of oil-field work involving injection wells that some believe may be causing earthquakes. The Tulsa World reported that a summary report said the...
AIR Reports on Offshore Earthquake Near Wellington, New Zealand
Jul 23 2013 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide has issued a report on the M6.5 earthquake that struck New Zealand’s Cook Strait, 54 km SSW of the capital city of Wellington, at a depth of 14 km [app. 8.7 miles] on July 21,...
AIR Worldwide Analyzes Landslides, Building Damage from China Quake
Jul 23 2013 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide has released its analysis of the damages suffered by rural communities in northwest China’s Gansu province from the “devastating earthquake on July 21 at 23:45:56 UTC...
Earthquake in China’s Gansu Province Kills 56, Injures 392, Xinhua Says
Jul 22 2013 // An earthquake in the northwestern Chinese province of Gansu killed at least 56 people and injured 392, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The 6.6-magnitude quake struck at 7:45 a.m. local time in the city of Dingxi,...
