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Oregon is nowhere near ready to deal with a catastrophic earthquake or tsunami like the predicted Big One, according to an audit released Thursday.
Edward Wolf, a Portland writer whose books include Salmon Nation (1999, 2003) and Klamath Heartlands (2004), served as a citizen member of the Advisory Panel of The Oregon Resilience Plan ...
Kathryn Schulz writes about how Oregon Governor Kate Brown’s signing of HB 3309 into law, allowing for development in the state’s tsunami-inundation zone, will be disastrous once the tsunami ...
Just this month, the Oregon governor published a disaster resiliency policy agenda, see Resiliency 2025: Improving Our Readiness for the Cascadia Earthquake and Tsunami. What I like is that it ...
Moving schools out of the tsunami zone will save lives, said Oregon's State Resilience Officer Mike Harryman at a seismic safety commission meeting in Salem on Tuesday.
Will legislators ensure that Oregonians are safe from rapidly rising temperatures and skyrocketing utility prices ...
Oregon passes HB 2081A, aiming to align state investments with climate resilience and clean energy transition.
A dataset on seismic and tsunami hazards of a coastal Oregon town has received a 2023 DesignSafe Dataset award, given in recognition of the dataset's diverse contributions to natural hazards research.
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — The Oregon Department of Emergency Management (ODEM) is urging tsunami preparedness after Thursday’s earthquake. According to ODEM, “At 10:44 a.m., a magnitude 7.0 ...
A rare tsunami warning for coastal areas in Oregon and Northern California was canceled following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake on Thursday morning, impacting millions of people.