PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Despite the ever-looming threat of a major earthquake hitting the Cascadia Subduction Zone, efforts to reinforce Portland’s Burnside Bridge have been delayed. Multnomah County ...

Research conducted by Civil Engineering Professor Keri Ryan and her team last May is advancing the relatively new field of non-structural earthquake engineering. The team’s work was part of a ...

PORTLAND, Ore (KOIN) — The Earthquake Ready Burnside Bridge Project just received a big boost in funding from Oregon Metro. The project — to ensure that the Burnside Bridge will survive a major ...

The USGS project will test three experimental early warning systems - two developed by Caltech and one by UC Berkeley. Initial funding will start at $250,000. Scientists have tested the three computer ...

There are over 13,000 active seismic stations out there, producing far more data than seismologists have time to go through.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Multnomah County’s Earthquake Ready Burnside Bridge Project is moving into its next phase after receiving federal approval on Friday. After reviewing the project’s ...

A construction project that would help ensure access across the Willamette River in Salem in the event of a major earthquake has been delayed three years and the cost may be more than triple what ...

New global stress map reveals areas where the Earth's crust is on the verge of collapse, doubling the data and changing earthquake management ...

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Scientists in Switzerland are deliberately triggering tiny earthquakes deep in the Alps to study how quakes start. Using water injection and thousands of sensors, they aim to predict dangerous faults, ...

Seismologists and earthquake engineers in Utah have long spoken of “the big one.” An earthquake somewhere along the Wasatch Fault could result in approximately 2,500 deaths, $33 billion in economic ...

On 6 November 2025, representatives from UNESCO, the Ministry of National Education of Türkiye, and the Japan International ...