This book focuses on earthquake insurance for homeowners and their attitudes to the earthquake risk. It is based on a survey of California residents completed just a few months before the Lorna Prieta earthquake.

This book explores the nature of the earthquake hazard and the availability of insurance and reports on a longitudinal study of homeowners in four California counties to chart their growing concern with earthquakes.

Considers legislation to authorize retroactive Federal insurance protection to cover damages sustained from Mar. 27, 1964 earthquake disaster in south central Alaska.