Latest Earthquake Headlines
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Earthquake Rattles Central Taiwan; Causes Minor Damage: AIR Worldwide
Mar 29 2013 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide reports that a “magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck central Taiwan on March 27, 2013, at 10:03 a.m. local time (02:03:20 UTC). With its epicenter located at 23.840° North latitude...
Insurance Covered Half of U.S. Disaster Costs in 2012: Swiss Re
Mar 27 2013 // Natural catastrophes and man-made disasters caused $186 billion in economic losses globally in 2012 and took approximately 14,000 lives, according to global insurer Swiss Re’s latest sigma study. The United States...
Swiss Re Study for 2012 Losses: $77 Bn Insured; $186 Bn Economic
Mar 27 2013 // Swiss Re has released its latest sigma study, which found that economic losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters reached $186 billion in 2012. Insured losses amounted to $77 billion, making 2012 the third...
Oregon City Fears Isolation After Major Earthquake
Mar 21 2013 // Officials in Medford say an emerging state plan for recovering from a major earthquake would keep their region isolated from the rest of Oregon for a lengthy period because repair efforts to get traffic moving north-south...
Arkansas to Monitor Earthquakes Near Greers Ferry
Mar 7 2013 // Earthquake experts intend to place more monitors near Greers Ferry Lake after a recent jump in the number of temblors in the area. While many of the 60 quakes in the past year were too light to be felt by people, the...
Three Small Earthquakes Recorded in North-Central Arkansas
Feb 25 2013 // The U.S. Geological Survey reports three earthquakes in Arkansas – including a magnitude 3.9 quake near Trumann. No injuries or damage are reported. The USGS says the quake was recorded at 4:28 p.m. Saturday four...
Small Earthquake Recorded Near Manila, Arkansas
Feb 22 2013 // U.S. Geological Survey reports a small earthquake was recorded near the Mississippi County town of Manila, Ark. The county sheriff’s office says no injuries or damage are reported. The Geological Survey says the 2.5...
Earthquake, Tsunami Kills at Least 5 in Solomon Islands; Alerts Now Cancelled
Feb 6 2013 // A powerful 8.0 magnitude earthquake set off a tsunami that killed at least five people in a remote part of the Solomon Islands on Wednesday and triggered evacuations across the South Pacific as island nations issued...
Jones, CEA Pay Heed to Northridge Quake Anniversary
Jan 28 2013 // With the anniversary of the Northridge Quake in mid-January, earthquake coverage was on a lot of minds. Jan. 17 marked the 19th Anniversary of an event many Southern Californians well remember. On that day in 1994, the...
Munich Re 2012 Cat Report Underscores Extreme Weather in U.S.; Sandy Losses
Jan 3 2013 // The figures for natural catastrophse that occurred in 2012 are “dominated by weather extremes in the USA,” according to a report from Munich Re. The reinsurers said the U.S. “accounted for a higher...
Earthquake And Drilling Link Prompts Colorado Review
Dec 6 2012 // A new report says earthquakes in Colorado and elsewhere may have been caused by a drilling procedure to dispose of wastewater. In a report announced Wednesday, geophysicists say an increase in earthquakes on the Raton...
Kentucky Testing Dam for Possible Earthquake Damage
Nov 28 2012 // Officials in eastern Kentucky are conducting tests on a dam to see if a recent 4.3 magnitude earthquake centered near Blackey enlarged the flow of a small stream at the bottom of the structure. Inspectors from the Kentucky...
Lloyd’s Report Focuses on ‘Gap’ in Disaster Costs and Insurance Coverage
Nov 28 2012 // A new report from Lloyd’s notes that the “the world has been battered by natural catastrophes in recent years, revealing a serious gap between the economic cost of natural catastrophes and the levels of insured...
Aon Benfield’s Impact Forecasting Launches Algeria, Morocco Quake Models
Nov 15 2012 // Impact Forecasting, the catastrophe model development center of excellence at Aon Benfield, announced the launch of new Algeria and Morocco earthquake model to achieve more reliable estimates of the earthquake losses to...
Kentucky Earthquake Not Due to Mining: Geologist
Nov 14 2012 // Geologists say the 4.3 magnitude earthquake that shook eastern Kentucky last weekend was too deep to be induced by the region’s underground mining activity. The epicenter was about 10 miles west of Whitesburg, in the...
CCRIF Partners with Seismic Research Center for Quake, Volcano Risk
Nov 13 2012 // The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) and the Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of The University of the West Indies have entered into a partnership to enhance the Accelerometric Network in the Eastern...
7.4 Magnitude Quake Shakes Active Guatemala Region: AIR Analysis
Nov 8 2012 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, at 10:35:50 UTC on Nov 7, 2012 an earthquake estimated at a magnitude of 7.4 occurred at a depth of 41.6 km (25.9 miles) about 15 miles off the coastal town of...
Researchers Still Learning About 2002 Alaska Earthquake
Nov 6 2012 // The Denali Fault earthquake only rumbled for about 3 minutes when it shook Interior Alaska a decade ago, but some of the reverberations of that powerful seismic event are still being felt today. The 7.9 magnitude quake,...
Trends
Nov 5 2012 // It’s interesting to see what’s on people’s minds as potential catastrophes develop. Google’s top search on Oct. 29 as Hurricane Sandy approached the East Coast were for the “Weather...
‘Big One’ Looms in Minds of Experts Before California ShakeOut
Nov 5 2012 // A day before more than 9 million people in California took part in a massive nationwide earthquake drill in mid-October, U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones stood in a room full of risk professionals in the San...
