Latest Earthquake Headlines
All the headlines from our Earthquake Topic Page, ordered by recency.
CEA Aims to Improve Value, Affordability of Calif. Earthquake Insurance
Sep 27 2010 // Californians might have more reason to retrofit their homes to better withstand a major earthquake, thanks to a recently adopted building code for retrofitting existing structures. The standard, approved in August by the...
Tennessee Warned to Take Earthquake Threat Seriously
Sep 27 2010 // Cities and states have improved their disaster readiness since the Sept. 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina, but authorities must keep stressing emergency preparedness to reduce complacency among the general public, retired...
It Figures
Sep 20 2010 // $100 Million The cost of property damage claims from Tropical Storm Hermine crept toward $100 million as of Sept. 10, 2010, three days after the storm made landfall in northeastern Mexico, and swept through Texas and into...
RMS Estimates Insured Losses for NZ Quake at $1.5 to $2.5 Billion
Sep 15 2010 // Following detailed analysis of property damage from the Darfield, New Zealand, earthquake, Risk Management Solutions said it “estimates that total insured losses will fall between NZD 2.1 billion (US$ 1.5 billion)...
RMS Analyzes New Zealand Earthquake Insured Losses
Sep 9 2010 // Risk Management Solutions has stated that, based on its analysis of the area exposed to the New Zealand earthquake, it “currently expects that approximately 60-70 percent of the insured loss will be residential, and...
S&P Examines Effects Of Chilean Earthquake on Reinsurers
Sep 9 2010 // A study published by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services – entitled: “Reinsurers Foot The Bill For Chilean Earthquake Losses” – indicates that the global reinsurance industry has...
New Zealand Quake Insured Losses between $2 to $4.5 Billion Says AIR
Sep 7 2010 // The magnitude 7.0 earthquake which struck the Southern Island of New Zealand on Saturday, Sept. 4 miraculously caused no fatalities; however it did cause substantial damages. Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide has...
Northern Calif. Shakes in 3.3 Magnitude Earthquake
Sep 2 2010 // Northern California experienced mild shaking when a 3.3 magnitude earthquake struck the San Pablo, Calif., area at 9:35 a.m. this morning. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the earthquake, which occurred on the...
Big Quakes More Frequent Than Thought on San Andreas Fault
Aug 24 2010 // Southern California is overdue for a major earthquake, according to UC Irvine and Arizona State University researchers who have charted temblors along the San Andreas fault stretching back 700 years. The findings, to be...
Markel Underwriting Loss Tied to Chile Earthquake, Deepwater Horizon
Aug 9 2010 // Specialty insurance company Markel Corp. reported that its combined ratio for the second quarter of 2010 was 103 percent, compared to 99 percent for the second quarter of 2009. The combined ratio was 102 percent for the...
Study Changes Picture of U.S. Quake Hazards
Aug 5 2010 // The risk of earthquakes in the U.S. Midwest may be more widespread than geologists have believed, but a “big one” may be less likely at Missouri’s New Madrid fault, researchers said Aug. 4. They found...
Minor Earthquake Shakes Up U.S. Capital
Jul 19 2010 // Earthquakes are so rare in the Washington area that even a geology student wasn’t quite sure what was going on when a minor one hit early Friday. Was it a truck passing by? A low-flying plane? Gerasimos...
Quake Monitor Installation Nears Completion in North Dakota
Jul 19 2010 // Installation is nearly complete on a network of earthquake-detecting instruments being placed across North Dakota as part of a national project, officials say. Fred Anderson, a geologist with the state Geological Survey in...
First Half 2010 Catastrophe Losses Double Average at $22 Billion
Jul 8 2010 // A report from Munich Re (www.munichre.com) notes that the first half of 2010 was “marked by an exceptionally large number of natural catastrophes and the scale of the losses they caused.” The reinsurer recorded...
Report IDs Pacific Northwest as ‘Mega-Earthquake’ Hotspot
Jul 5 2010 // The Pacific Northwest is one of five regions in the world most likely to see a mega-earthquake, according to a new report. “When The Earth Moves: Mega-Earthquakes To Come?” published by Aon Benfield in...
Caribbean Countries Renew Hurricane, Earthquake Coverage
Jul 2 2010 // All sixteen members of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF – www.ccrif.org) have renewed their policies for hurricane and earthquake coverage for the 2010/11 year beginning on June first, the...
Earthquake, Tornado, Storms Hit Canada’s International Summit Site
Jun 24 2010 // International leaders might be forgiven if they nervously eye the skies above and the ground below as they gather for summits of the Group of Eight and the Group of 20 in Canada’s province of Ontario this weekend. In...
Lloyd’s Team to Assess Chile Earthquake
Jun 18 2010 // Lloyd’s has confirmed that a team has been sent to Chile to “help the market better understand the impact of February’s earthquake and assist in ensuring the speedy payment of valid claims.” The...
Aon Benfield Report Identifies ‘Mega-Earthquake’ ‘Hotspots
Jun 15 2010 // Aon Benfield has published a new report – “When The Earth Moves: Mega-Earthquakes To Come?” – in conjunction with the Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre. The report was prompted by the recent...
Study Ties 1811, 1812 Midwest Quakes to Illinois Fault
Jun 9 2010 // New research by U.S. Geological Survey scientists is casting doubt on the long-held idea that the New Madrid fault zone in Missouri’s Bootheel unleashed a series of devastating earthquakes in 1811 and 1812. In a new...
