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Poverty, job loss and high insurance costs have led to a lack of earthquake insurance in a town with a big fault and bigger problems.

Only about 12% of homes in the New Madrid Seismic Zone in Missouri鈥檚 southeastern tip have earthquake insurance, a dramatic decline since 2000.

Thirty years ago, Iben Browning, a self-proclaimed climatologist, predicted that the St. Louis area was in for a major earthquake along the New Madrid Seismic Zone. He forecast that it would happen right around Dec. 3, 1990, sparking a media frenzy in the small town of New Madrid, Missouri, and causing many to stock up on emergency supplies.

A coalition of ninety environmental groups and over twenty community leaders in Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky are urging President Obama to block the...

Last week, a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Napa, Calif. ripped through a region where less than 6 percent of homeowners and renters have earthquake鈥�

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, July 19, 2013: WASHINGTON 鈥� After months of delay, the Army Corps of Engineers has posted its latest鈥�

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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 26, 2012 - WASHINGTON 鈥� Calling years of delays 鈥渦nacceptable,鈥� U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill,鈥�

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 27, 2012 - WASHINGTON 鈥� More than a year after the Army Corps of Engineers blasted the Birds鈥�

The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting that, in addition to the 4.0 magnitude earthquake centered near East Prairie, Mo. early this morning, a second,鈥�