Hazard
Earthquake
Shaking of the ground caused by a sudden release of energy within the Earth, potentially damaging structures and infrastructure.
Organizations
- KPFF Consulting Engineers
- QuakeFeed Earthquake monitoring, mapping and alert app.
- Santa Clara Valley Water District / Valley Water
- Safe-T-Proof Seismic fastening and earthquake safety products for contents and furnishings.
- GEI Consultants
- Puerto Rico Seismic Network
- Seismic Research Centre
- Hannover Re One of the world's largest reinsurers with significant property-catastrophe business.
- Oregon Mutual Regional mutual insurer with western U.S. property exposure.
- Mercury Insurance Personal-lines insurer with significant California property exposure.
- California Earthquake Authority Publicly managed earthquake insurance provider for California homeowners.
- Kinemetrics Seismic instrumentation, strong-motion sensors and structural monitoring.
- SeismicAI AI-based earthquake detection and early-warning technology.
- Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table
- Center for Collective Impact in Earthquake Science
- California Foundation Works
- Southwest Gas
- Seismic Warning Systems Onsite earthquake detection and automated warning systems.
- Alpha Structural
- LastQuake Crowdsourced and authoritative earthquake information from EMSC.
- QuakeHOLD! Furniture, appliance and object restraint products for earthquake safety.
- Centre for Natural Hazards Research
- California Casualty Affinity insurer serving educators and public safety professionals.
- Natural Hazards Risk and Resiliency Research Center
- Golden Retrofit & Foundation Repair
- Langan
- RenaissanceRe Global specialist in property catastrophe reinsurance and insurance-linked securities.
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction
- Earthquake Safety
- Silixa Distributed acoustic, temperature and strain sensing using fiber optics.
- Bay Area Retrofit
- Beca
- Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
- Center for Disaster Medical Sciences
- Güralp Broadband seismometers, accelerometers and seismic monitoring systems.
- John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center
- Auto Club Enterprises Insurance AAA insurance provider with homeowners offerings in catastrophe-exposed western states.
- Safehub Building-mounted sensors and cloud analytics for earthquake damage estimation.
- Geophysical Institute
- Silicon Valley Power
- FiberSense Distributed fiber sensing for infrastructure, movement and seismic intelligence.
- MyShake Earthquake early warning and citizen science app from UC Berkeley.
- Bamboo Insurance Technology-enabled homeowners insurer with California and catastrophe exposure.
- Golden State Water Company
- Walter P Moore
- Geomechanics and Mitigation of Geohazards
- Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center
- SkyAlert Earthquake early-warning technology and alerting services.
- Seismic Safety
- Institute of Geophysics
- Grillo Low-cost seismic sensor networks and earthquake early warning.
- Ariel Re Bermuda-based reinsurer focused on property catastrophe and specialty risk.
- PEMCO Regional personal-lines insurer serving Washington and Oregon.
- International Code Council (ICC)
- HoldRite
- San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
- Center for Hazard Mitigation and Community Resilience
- Multi-Hazard Risk and Resilience Centre
- East Bay Municipal Utility District
- CelsiusPro Parametric insurance platform and risk-structuring technology.
- SoCalGas
- Nanometrics Seismological instruments and monitoring networks.
- Palomar Specialty insurer focused on catastrophe-exposed property and other niche risks.
- MyHazards California address-based natural-hazard lookup application.
- Saber Foundation Repair
- Puget Sound Energy
- Tacoma Power
- Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica
- Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
- Bolt Down the Bay Area
- Parametrix
- Wawanesa Insurance Canadian mutual insurer with U.S. property operations in western states.
- Center for Public Health and Disasters
- Optimum Seismic
- DOWL
- Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
- Kleinfelder
- K2 Insurance Services Specialty insurance group operating MGAs and programs including catastrophe and parametric products.
- Disaster Risk Reduction Centre
- Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning
- Southern California Edison
- SCOR Global reinsurance group serving property and casualty markets.
- Pacific Gas and Electric Company
- National Seismological Service
- Neptune Flood Technology-enabled private flood MGU offering primary, excess and parametric coverage.
- GeoSIG Earthquake, structural and strong-motion monitoring equipment.
- MAE Center
- Raspberry Shake Compact connected seismographs and global citizen seismic network.
- Little Firefighter Earthquake-actuated automatic gas shutoff valves and seismic safety products.
- California Water Service
- Mutual of Enumclaw Mutual insurer serving western households and businesses.
- Center for Geotechnical Modeling
- Jumpstart Parametric earthquake insurance platform acquired by Neptune Flood.
- Thornton Tomasetti
- Foundation Works
- NHERI Lehigh Experimental Facility
- San Jose Water
- Snohomish County PUD
- NW Natural
- QuakeKare Emergency kits, earthquake supplies and workplace preparedness products.
- Alaska Earthquake Center
- Mennonite Central Committee U.S.
- Eight Days of Hope
- Hope Force International
- Code 3 Associates
- Greater Good Charities
- Best Friends Animal Society
- Reach Out Worldwide
- Habitat for Humanity International
- ToolBank USA
- American Humane Rescue
- Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance Network (StEER)
- Hope Crisis Response Network
- American Veterinary Medical Foundation
- RedRover
- ASPCA Disaster Response
- Humane Society of the United States
- Operation BBQ Relief
- Rebuilding Together
- SBP
- National Disaster Recovery Fund
- International Fund for Animal Welfare
- Wings of Rescue
- Fuller Center for Housing
- Disaster Recovery International Foundation
- NECHAMA Jewish Response to Disaster
- Furniture Bank Network
Nonprofits
- Mennonite Central Committee U.S.
- Eight Days of Hope
- Hope Force International
- Code 3 Associates
- Greater Good Charities
- Best Friends Animal Society
- Reach Out Worldwide
- Habitat for Humanity International
- ToolBank USA
- American Humane Rescue
- Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance Network (StEER)
- Hope Crisis Response Network
- American Veterinary Medical Foundation
- RedRover
- ASPCA Disaster Response
- Humane Society of the United States
- Operation BBQ Relief
- Rebuilding Together
- SBP
- National Disaster Recovery Fund
- International Fund for Animal Welfare
- Wings of Rescue
- Fuller Center for Housing
- Disaster Recovery International Foundation
Geographic Activity
- United States
- California
- Washington
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PREPHAUS, “Earthquake,” PREPHAUS Resilience Network, https://prep.haus/network/hazards/earthquake.