On its 25th Anniversary, CEA Remembers the Northridge Earthquake (Web Page)
25 years have passed since the devastating magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake struck the San Fernando Valley. Thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed, displacing about 22,000 people. The Northridge earthquake is known to be one of the most costly natural disasters in U.S. history, causing $20 billion in residential damage alone. CEA Remembers The Northridge Earthquake: 25 Years Later…
Helping Mills College Students and Staff be Prepared for an Earthquake (Web Page)
CEA Chief Mitigation Officer Janiele Maffei, doing a hands-on demonstration, Thursday Apr. 12, 2018, in Oakland California. Maffei showed students and college staff how a home can be retrofitted to decrease the risk of damage during an earthquake. On April 12, over 20 local agencies and private companies–-among them the California Earthquake Authority—participated during the “2nd Annual CPR…
San Francisco Residents Get Earthquake Ready (Web Page)
(L-R) Melissa Crittenden and Chelsea Talbert, CEA staff, talking to a San Francisco resident about the importance of earthquake insurance and house retrofitting. More than six hundred San Francisco residents showed up to participate in this year's earthquake preparedness fair organized by the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection. The event took place at the Bill Graham Civic…
How to Buy (Web Page)
CEA is not-for-profit. Our insurance rates are based on the best available science and research, not profit. Choose the earthquake insurance coverage that fits your needs and budget. We work with participating residential insurance companies who sell and service our residential earthquake insurance policies for homeowners, renters, condo-unit owners and mobilehome owners. Follow these four…
Rancho Mirage Town Hall Forum on CEA Earthquake Insurance (Video)
Hundreds of Rancho Mirage residents participated in an earthquake preparedness Town Hall Forum focused on earthquake Insurance. CEA educated residents about their local earthquake risk and informed them about affordable earthquake insurance rates available from CEA.
Ridgecrest earthquakes generate spike in CEA earthquake insurance purchases (Web Page)
(SACRAMENTO) The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) gained 23,861 earthquake insurance policies in July, the second-largest monthly net increase in CEA’s 23-year history. This growth was driven by the magnitude 6.4 and 7.1 earthquakes, and a number of aftershocks, that struck on unnamed faults near the Mojave Desert town of Ridgecrest beginning on the Fourth of July holiday. The gain in policies seen after what geologists are…
California Earthquake Authority continues to see strong interest in earthquake insurance (Web Page)
(SACRAMENTO) The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) ended its second quarter of 2017 with more than 950,000 policies in force—continuing a trend of increased earthquake insurance sales that began in 2016. In 2016, CEA saw a significant net gain of more than 52,000 policies in force—more than seven times CEA’s average gain of about 7,200 annually in the past 10 years. Interest in earthquake insurance remains…