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January 27, 2021

Alabama Tornado

Tornado season has arrived in the southeastern United States, as a powerful storm system brought destructive weather to the mid-South and central Gulf Coast region earlier this week. Late in the evening of January 25, the northern suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama, were heavily damaged when a strong...

December 3, 2020

2020 Wildfires

It can be argued that there is no real wildfire “season” anymore and that wildfires are occurring throughout the year in at least parts of the western U.S. Today, late year wildfires broke out in Southern California, with the Bond Fire in Orange county expanding from the 3,500 acres initially rep...

October 30, 2020

Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake in Turkey and Greece

On Friday, 30 October, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck the sea near the Turkey and Greece borders at a shallow depth. The earthquake struck some 120 miles south of the western-most section of the North Anatolian fault, the seismic source that drives the majority of risk in Turkey.  The mom...

October 28, 2020

Hurricane Zeta

Zeta is currently a high-end Category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph and is expected to make landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana tonight before 7pm CT. The Louisiana coast has been battered this season from Laura and Marco to the recent Delta–and now Zeta. Zeta’s add...

October 13, 2020

Hurricane Delta

CoreLogic Estimates $0.7 Billion to $1.2 Billion in U.S. Onshore Losses From Hurricane Delta Wind and Storm Surge According to this new CoreLogic Hurricane Delta data analysis, insured wind losses for residential and commercial properties in Louisiana and Texas are estimated to be between $0.5 bi...

September 22, 2020

Hurricane Teddy

Hurricane Teddy is expected to reach Atlantic Canada as a post-tropical storm on Wednesday morning and will most likely have decreased wind speeds compared to Hurricane Dorian in 2019.  Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island should expect surge levels in addition to flash flooding due to inten...

September 16, 2020

Hurricane Sally

Overnight, Hurricane Sally strengthened to a high-end Category 2 storm, making landfall near Gulf Shores, Alabama with maximum sustained winds of 105mph. Interestingly, Sally made landfall in almost the exact same spot and on the same day, September 16, as Hurricane Ivan in 2004. Wind Sally was a...

April 20, 2020

Coronavirus Adds to Recovery Challenges in Southeast U.S. After Tor...

On April 12 and 13, 2020, severe weather swept through the Southeast U.S. A total of 86 tornadoes tore through the region, leading to the loss of at least 34 lives. Over the two-day storm period, CoreLogic® Tornado Verification Technology monitored the tornadoes and estimated structural impa...

March 24, 2020

Think Like a Seismologist

Do you ever hear that an earthquake has occurred and wonder if it will be damaging? Or wonder why you’ll hear that a Magnitude 6 earthquake caused a lot of damage, but a Magnitude 7 did not? Today I’ll offer some insights on how to think about earthquakes like a seismologist. The first ...

January 28, 2020

Earthquake: M7.7 Near Cuba

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurred on January 28 at 2:10 PM EST, situated about 75 miles northwest of Jamaica, approximately 80 miles southwest of Cuba’s Bayamo state. Strong ground motions have been reported in Montego Bay, Jamaica. The earthquake occurred along the northern margins of the Cari...

November 4, 2019

Top 15 Metro Areas with Wildfire Risk

Over the past several years, the United States has experienced record-breaking wildfires. In 2018 alone, a total of 8,767,492 acres burned – an area roughly equivalent to 74 of the 75 largest cities in the United States combined. This is the sixth-highest total since modern historical records beg...

September 27, 2019

Rebuilding from Hurricane Dorian

A Lesson for Communities Everywhere Hurricane Dorian, the strongest tropical cyclone to ever to hit the Bahamas, impacted the islands with hurricane-force winds from September 1 to 3 of 2019. Dorian was a Category 5 storm with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph, the strongest of which affected th...