Will legislators ensure that Oregonians are safe from rapidly rising temperatures and skyrocketing utility prices ...

This milestone is part of a growing number of success stories. Officials celebrate recovery of critical water supply after ...

Something wonderful is happening in the geology department at Cal Poly Humboldt right now. Ten undergraduate students from ...

June. Our long-awaited emergency preparedness Container Express (Conex) box arrived and was installed in a permanent location ...

According to the study, the quake could make parts of the coastline sink by up to 6.5 feet, which would make the tsunami more damaging.

The Oregon Department of Emergency Management is warning that the state's ability to prepare for natural disasters is at risk after FEMA canceled a grant program.

This week, it makes far more sense to test an aspect of our tsunami system that didn’t perform very well last December — who should and should not evacuate and how to do so safely and effectively.

An individual has little to no resilience to survive a local tsunami if he or she must travel 15 km on foot in less than 15 min to reach high ground. ... N Wood, Variations in community exposure and ...

Architects are designing for resilience. ... a retired architect who helped create the Oregon Resilience Plan, aimed at preparing for a Cascadia subduction zone earthquake and tsunami. ...

The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services said the tsunami warning has been canceled for California and Oregon as of noon.According to the United States Geological Survey, a 7.0 ...

California’s worst tsunami disaster in modern times occurred in 1964, when a magnitude 9.2 earthquake in Alaska spawned a tsunami that inundated Crescent City, near the Oregon border.

Twenty years ago, the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, killed over 225,000 people and devastated the coastlines of 14 countries surrounding the Indian Ocean. This tragic event kickstarted a worldwide effort ...