Data Shows Hurricanes and Earthquakes Grab Headlines But Inland Counties Top Disaster List July 24, 2024 By Seth Borenstein Floyd County keeps flooding and the federal government keeps coming to the rescue. In July 2022, at least 40 people...
Texas Regulators Limit Oil and Gas Disposal Wells in Bid to Reduce Earthquakes in West Texas January 12, 2024 By Carlos Nogueras Ramos, Texas Tribune The state’s oil and gas regulatory agency last month suspended nearly two dozen permits that let companies inject saltwater water...
Rescuers Race Against Time in Search for Survivors in Japan After Powerful Quakes Leave 73 Dead January 4, 2024 By Hiro Komae, Richard Colombo and Yuri Kageyama SUZU, Japan (AP) — Japanese rescue workers and canine units searched urgently through rubble Wednesday ahead of predicted bitter cold...
Fires and Other Disasters are Increasing in Hawaii, According to AP Data Analysis August 18, 2023 By Seth Borenstein, Mary Katherine Wildeman and Bobby Caina Calvan KIHEI, Hawaii (AP) — Hurricane-fueled flash floods and mudslides. Lava that creeps into neighborhoods. Fierce drought that materializes in a...
Scientists: Water Seeping into Faults May Cause S.C. Quakes July 18, 2022 COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Some scientists say water seeping deep into the ground may be causing a swarm of earthquakes...
Swarm of Earthquakes, Some Strong, Hits Off Alaska Islands January 13, 2022 By Mark Thiessen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) _ A swarm of earthquakes was recorded Tuesday off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, including the largest with a...
Top Texas Shale Producers Hit by Quake-Driven Well Disposal Closures January 7, 2022 By Liz Hampton Some Texas shale oil and gas producers could lose as much as half of their wastewater disposal capacity in key...
Experts Puzzled by Continuing South Carolina Earthquakes January 6, 2022 By Meg Kinnard COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) –Yet another earthquake has struck near South Carolina’s capital city, the ninth in a series of rumblings...
Series of Small Quakes Shake Near South Carolina Capital December 29, 2021 By Meg Kinnard COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP)–A series of mild earthquakes rumbled across central South Carolina on Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey,...
Okla. Supreme Ct. Ruling Shows Policyholders Shouldn’t Depend on Agent’s Representations November 24, 2021 By Jim Sams New Dominion LLC taps into oil and natural gas reserves that many production companies avoid. The Tulsa, Oklahoma company operates...