Construction workers and vehicles move around the Capitol. Gov. Kotek’s order to earthquake-proof state buildings comes as the state Capitol nears the end of a years-long, $598 million seismic ...
Researchers named the spring "Pythia’s Oasis" for Ancient Greece's Pythia, an oracle who sat in a temple above a crack in the ...
OSU researchers find Cascadia Subduction Zone and San Andreas Fault may be synchronized — with the potential for quakes on ...
Scientists compared sediment deposits created by underwater landslides from earthquakes within the Cascadia Subduction Zone ...
The so-called “Big One” or Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake expected to trigger disruptive quakes throughout the West ...
New research offers the theory that the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia subduction zone could produce devastating ...
With unprecedented clarity, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone—the collision point where one tectonic plate dives beneath another—actively breaking apart. The discovery, reported in ...
Where the school had been, moments before, was a cloud of dust. The day was pleasant and partly cloudy in Mexico City when a 7.1 magnitude earthquake shook the earth, killing around 400 people. Of ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon Governor Tina Kotek signed an executive order on Monday aiming to help the state prepare for earthquakes. Executive Order 25-22 directs Oregon’s Department of ...
In 1954, a powerful earthquake shook Northern California near Humboldt Bay, baffling scientists for decades. Most quakes in the region come from the Gorda Plate, but this one didn’t fit the pattern.