earthquakes and tsunami homeowners insurance damage claims

A tsunami warning was issued and then canceled today for Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives after an 8.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the Indian Ocean, little more than a year after concerns arose about U.S. vulnerability to tsunamis in places like Hawaii in the wake of the devastating March 2011 earthquake in Japan, according to the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.). The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Pacific Tsunami Warning Center cited specific coastal…