{"id":17089,"date":"2013-10-30T10:44:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T15:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=17089"},"modified":"2013-10-30T11:05:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T16:05:12","slug":"oklahoma-insurance-commissioners-advice-buy-earthquake-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/10\/30\/oklahoma-insurance-commissioners-advice-buy-earthquake-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner&#8217;s Advice: Buy Earthquake Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17094\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17094\" alt=\"Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/10\/john-doak.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/10\/john-doak.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/10\/john-doak-107x150.jpg 107w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/10\/john-doak-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">State of Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak<\/p>\n<\/div><p>A week after the U.S. Geological Survey warned of increased earthquake risk in central Oklahoma, possibly because of oil and gas activity, state<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ok.gov\/triton\/modules\/newsroom\/newsroom_article.php?id=157&article_id=12955\"> Insurance Commissioner John Doak is urging<\/a> Oklahomans to buy earthquake insurance.<\/p><p>Most homeowners and renters policies don&#8217;t cover earthquake damage, which can cost $100-$150 a year, the <em>The Oklahoman<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/insurance-commissioner-urges-oklahomans-to-buy-earthquake-coverage\/article\/3898834?custom_click=rss\">Brianna Bailey reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWith an average 40 earthquakes per year, we feel very strongly that this is something we need to be talking about in Oklahoma,\u201d Doak said.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><!--more-->Oklahoma&#8217;s earthquakes are expected to continue and don&#8217;t appear to be naturally occurring, federal seismologist Bill Leith wrote in in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/newsroom\/article.asp?ID=3710\">the USGS alert<\/a>. The federal agency is collaborating with the state Geological Survey to study the possibility that the quakes were triggered by disposal wells used by the oil and gas industry, which research by other geophysicists has indicated is <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/03\/26\/oklahoma-earthquake-was-largest-linked-to-injection-wells-new-study-suggests\/\">likely<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week after the U.S. Geological Survey warned of increased earthquake risk in central Oklahoma, possibly because of oil and gas activity, state Insurance Commissioner John Doak is urging Oklahomans to buy earthquake insurance.Most homeowners and renters policies don&#8217;t cover earthquake damage, which can cost $100-$150 a year, the The Oklahoman&#8216;s Brianna Bailey reports: \u201cWith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":17094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[489,500,238,575],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17089"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17093,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17089\/revisions\/17093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}