AM Best: Japan Quake’s Effect on Insurers ‘Manageable; KCC Says Losses to Hit $6.4B January 5, 2024 By L.S. Howard The earnings impact on the major domestic non-life insurers of claims from the Jan. 1, 2024 earthquake in Japan is...
Japan Adds Rescuers as Death Toll From Jan. 1 Quake Rises to 64 January 3, 2024 By Isabel Reynolds and Takashi Nakamichi The death toll in the wake of the Jan. 1 earthquake off Japan’s northwest coast rose above 60 as the...
Turkey Earthquake Tops 2023 Insurance Industry Losses Outside US: CRESTA January 2, 2024 The largest non-US natural catastrophe in 2023 was the Kahramanmaras Earthquake Sequence in Turkey on Feb. 6, which generated an...
Update: Major Japan Quake Topples Buildings, Killing Nearly 50 People January 2, 2024 By Erica Yokoyama and Jon Herskovitz The death toll from a powerful earthquake that toppled buildings in the Noto Peninsula on Japan’s northwest coast rose to...
China Earthquake Update: 137 People Killed, 12 Still Missing, 207,000 Homes Wrecked December 21, 2023 By Alessandro Diviggiano, Xiaoyu Yin and Liz Lee A dozen people were still missing on Thursday after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck northwestern Gansu province late Monday, and netizens...
Death Toll Climbs in China’s Worst Earthquake in Nearly a Decade December 20, 2023 By Bloomberg News The death toll from China’s worst earthquake since 2014 rose to more than 130 as the government sent a top...
Magnitude 6.2 Quake Kills More Than 100 in China’s Northwest December 19, 2023 By Bloomberg News Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for efforts to minimize casualties after an impoverished region in the northwest was hit by...
Mount St. Helens Records Over 400 Quakes Since July; No Signs of Imminent Eruption November 16, 2023 More than 400 earthquakes have been detected beneath Washington`s Mount St. Helens in recent months, though there are no signs...
Insured Losses From Severe Convective Storms in US Top $50B for 1st Time: Aon October 20, 2023 By L.S. Howard Insured losses from severe convective storms in the United States continued to increase during the third quarter, surpassing the $50...
Morocco Survivors Seek Aid as Earthquake Death Toll Passes 2,100 September 11, 2023 By Jihed Abidellaoui and Alexander Cornwell Survivors of Morocco’s deadliest earthquake in more than six decades struggled to find food, water and shelter on Sunday as...