Latest Earthquake Headlines
All the headlines from our Earthquake Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Damage Reported After 4.2 Magnitude Earthquakes in Oklahoma
Mar 6 2018 // Busted bricks and cracked windows were revealed Monday after some of those most powerful earthquakes in Oklahoma in the past year rattled the northern part of the state. Oklahoma residents have gotten used to feeling...
Judge Stays Lawsuits over Oklahoma Earthquakes
Mar 5 2018 // Oklahoma residents who are suing oil and gas producers for earthquake damage to their homes and businesses must now wait for a federal judge’s decision in another case. Judge Phillip Corley granted a stay with a...
Exxon Mobil’s Airstrip in Papua New Guinea Heavily Damaged After Earthquake
Mar 2 2018 // Exxon Mobil Corp. built a runway to land some of the world’s biggest planes as part of its endeavor to tap gas riches in one of the most remote spots on Earth. But an earthquake Monday in Papua New Guinea wrecked the...
Oil, Gas Regulator Modifies Oklahoma Earthquake Guidelines
Mar 1 2018 // The Oklahoma Corporation Commission has developed new requirements for oil and natural gas operators in the event of an earthquake. The commission announced the new protocol for operators in the newest and largest areas of...
Exxon’s LNG Plant in Papua New Guinea Could Be Shut for 6 Weeks After Quake
Mar 1 2018 // Exxon Mobil Corp.’s $19 billion liquefied natural gas export project in Papua New Guinea may remain shut for six weeks after an earthquake rocked the country’s remote highlands, which are home to the...
Earthquake in Papua New Guinea Causes ‘Massive Destruction’; Death Toll Rises
Feb 28 2018 // Whole villages were flattened and water sources spoiled by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 20 people, residents said on Wednesday as rescuers struggled to reach the hardest-hit areas in Papua New Guinea’s...
Record Number of Californians Applied for Earthquake Retrofit Grants
Feb 26 2018 // The Earthquake Brace + Bolt program closed its latest registration with more than 7,500 California homeowners applying for 2,000 retrofit grants. The EBB, funded primarily by the California Earthquake Authority, closed...
Kansas House Panel Rejects Earthquake-Prevention Bill
Feb 20 2018 // A Kansas House committee has rejected a bill that was designed to prevent earthquakes that experts say are caused by oil and gas production wastewater disposal methods. The Sierra Club and several Kansas residents who say...
Fracking Earthquakes Pop Up in Unexpected Corner of Oklahoma’s Shale Patch
Feb 9 2018 // The oil prospectors of Oklahoma, it appeared, finally had a solution to their earthquake problem. Ordered by regulators to curb the wastewater they were dumping deep into the ground, they watched with satisfaction as...
Managing the CEA’s growth would be easier with this one small fix
Feb 8 2018 // The California Earthquake Authority, the state’s privately funded and publicly managed earthquake “instrumentality,” is growing like mad. A spate of recent natural disasters—in combination with savvy...
Aon Securities Structures Largest-Ever Earthquake Catastrophe Bond for World Bank
Feb 7 2018 // Aon Securities, the investment banking division of reinsurance intermediary and capital adviser Aon Benfield, has assisted the World Bank in structuring the largest-ever catastrophe bond covering earthquake, which provides...
Study Finds Oklahoma’s Earthquakes Strongly Linked to Wastewater Injection Depth
Feb 2 2018 // A huge increase in the number of man-made earthquakes in Oklahoma, is strongly linked to the depth at which wastewater from the oil and gas industry is injected into the ground, according to a new study involving the...
2017’s Natural Hazards and the Destruction They Brought: CoreLogic
Jan 25 2018 // CoreLogic’s annual Natural Hazard Risk Summary and Analysis shows that 2017 was a year of relatively average activity for most U.S. natural hazards with the exception of wildfires in California and flooding from...
M7.9 Quake Jolted Alaska, No Tsunami
Jan 24 2018 // A 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck off Alaska’s Kodiak Island early Tuesday, prompting a tsunami warning for a large swath of the state’s coast and sending some residents fleeing to higher ground. Officials at...
Registration for California Seismic Retrofit Grants Opens
Jan 23 2018 // Registration opens today for eligible homeowners to receive grants of up to $3,000 for seismic retrofits of their older homes. Homeowners have until Feb. 23 to apply for a grant from California’s Earthquake Brace +...
California Earthquake Authority Chief Talks About 1 Million Policies
Jan 18 2018 // Glenn Pomeroy, CEO of the California Earthquake Authority, is as enthusiastic of an earthquake policy salesman as you’ll find anywhere. Pomeroy has headed the state’s privately funded, publicly managed seller...
Experts See Expanding Role for Parametric Insurance, Including for U.S. Disasters
Jan 8 2018 // Catastrophic losses this year due to extreme weather events have led to a growing interest in parametric insurance in the U.S., according to industry experts. Parametric coverage is also gaining traction as hazard modeling...
Number of Strong Earthquakes in Oklahoma Continues to Decline
Dec 28 2017 // Regulators and scientists say the number of 3.0 magnitude or stronger earthquakes in Oklahoma is declining. The Oklahoma Geological Survey reports the number of quakes of at least that magnitude during 2017 was 294 through...
M4.0 Earthquake Confirmed in Oregon
Dec 15 2017 // An earthquake hit Oregon roughly 40 miles south of Portland near Molalla and was felt by numerous residents in the area, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed. The USGS reported the magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck about...
Series of Small Earthquakes Rattle Northern Nevada
Dec 13 2017 // The Nevada Seismological Laboratory confirmed a series of small earthquakes rattling north Reno, Nev. Some 32 small earthquakes were reported being felt since Nov. 28. The largest detected had a magnitude of 1.9. Officials...
