Latest Earthquake Headlines
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Indiana Museum Exhibit Explains Why Natural Disasters Occur
Apr 12 2017 // Natural disasters can strike at any time, often without warning, and devastate cities, regions, states and countries. Nature Unleashed, a new exhibit at the Indiana State Museum, aims to help Hoosiers understand why...
Oklahoma Earthquakes Lawsuit Against Energy Companies Dismissed
Apr 7 2017 // A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against three oil and gas companies over Oklahoma’s ongoing earthquakes. The lawsuit, filed last year on behalf of Sierra Club Oklahoma, asked for a reduction of production...
2 California Congressmen Introduce Earthquake Mitigation Tax Incentives
Apr 3 2017 // A pair of Congressmen from California in late March introduced the Earthquake Mitigation Incentive and Tax Parity Act of 2017 to exclude incentives for residential seismic retrofits from federal taxation. The act was...
USGS Forecasts Lower Overall Seismic Hazard for Oklahoma in 2017
Apr 3 2017 // Oklahoma experienced fewer earthquakes last year compared with 2015 and a recent study of human-induced earthquakes predicts another year of reduced seismicity for the state in 2017. The U.S. Geological Survey warns,...
USGS Lowers Seismic Hazard Forecast for Oklahoma in 2017
Mar 31 2017 // Oklahoma experienced fewer earthquakes last year compared with 2015 and a recent study of human-induced earthquakes predicts another year of reduced seismicity for the state in 2017. The U.S. Geological Survey warns,...
Another Mag 4.0 Quake, 3 Smaller Ones Strike Oklahoma
Mar 27 2017 // The U.S. Geological Survey reports a magnitude 4.0 earthquake and three smaller temblors have struck Oklahoma. The survey reported that the magnitude 4.0 quake hit on March 25 south of Medford in north-central Oklahoma....
California Congressmen Introduce Earthquake Mitigation Tax Incentives
Mar 22 2017 // A pair of Congressmen from California today introduced the Earthquake Mitigation Incentive and Tax Parity Act of 2017 to exclude incentives for residential seismic retrofits from federal taxation. The act was introduced by...
Dam at Oregon Lake Being Retrofitted to Withstand Earthquake
Mar 14 2017 // The leaky dam at Hyatt Lake in Oregon is being shored up this summer as part of a $3.7 million seismic retrofit. The Mail Tribune reported the project will bring the dam east of Ashland into safety compliance after a...
Oil Companies Sued by Oklahoma Tribe Over Quake
Mar 6 2017 // An Oklahoma-based Native American tribe filed a lawsuit in its own tribal court system Friday accusing several oil companies of triggering the state’s largest earthquake that caused extensive damage to some...
Washington Utility Commits to Maintain Low Levels at Lake over Quake Fears
Feb 27 2017 // Updated earthquake concerns for Mossyrock Dam, the tallest structure of its kind in Washington, have prompted Tacoma Power to commit to a new, reduced water level at Riffe Lake that will likely stretch well into the next...
Colombia’s Regulator Approves RMS Earthquake Model for Use by Insurers
Feb 21 2017 // RMS, the the Newark, Calif.-based catastrophe risk management firm, has received approval from the Colombian insurance regulator, Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia (SFC), to offer catastrophe modeling services to...
EPA to Oklahoma Officials: Do More to Curb Earthquakes
Feb 20 2017 // The Environmental Protection Agency told Oklahoma regulators last November to do more to protect the state from a surge in earthquake activity that scientists have linked to the underground disposal of oil and gas...
Colombia’s Insurance Regulator Approves Use of AIR’s Earthquake Model
Feb 15 2017 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) announced that its earthquake model for Colombia has been approved by the country’s insurance regulator, the Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia, for use by domestic...
Talk Expected to Turn to Earthquakes at Tornado Summit in Oklahoma
Feb 13 2017 // Hundreds of top meteorologists and disaster recovery experts will converge on Oklahoma City this week for a national tornado summit, though much of the discussion is expected to focus on temblors, not twisters. The annual...
California Earthquake Authority Promotes Coombes, Schneider
Feb 10 2017 // The California Earthquake Authority has named Todd Coombes chief insurance and technology officer. The CEA also named Kellie Schneider chief operations officer. The moves follow the retirement at the end of January of Bob...
EPA to Oklahoma Officials: Do More to Curb Earthquakes
Feb 6 2017 // The Environmental Protection Agency told Oklahoma regulators last November to do more to protect the state from a surge in earthquake activity that scientists have linked to the underground disposal of oil and gas...
Flooding and Damaging Wind Were Most Destructive Natural Hazards in 2016
Feb 2 2017 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. Annual Summary from CoreLogic Details 2016 Natural Hazard Events CoreLogic® analyzes and evaluates the number and severity of natural hazard events that occurred...
USGS Confirms Another Quake in Western Colorado Towns
Feb 2 2017 // A recent 3.3 magnitude earthquake is the largest to hit a western Colorado county in a decade, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed. The USGS told the Rifle Citizen Telegram that seven people reported the earthquake that...
Who Will Foot the Bill for San Francisco’s $750M Millennium Tower?
Feb 2 2017 // Nina Agabian, a retired director of research in global health science at the University of California, bought a 29th-floor apartment in San Francisco’s Millennium Tower in 2010. “It was supposed to be a...
Research Shows California Homeowners Lack Understanding of Retrofitting
Feb 1 2017 // A new study on California homowners shows a general awareness of earthquakes and other natural hazards, but that those owners did not necessarily take action to mitigate risks, and many didn’t know whether their home...
