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Ten months after the South Napa Earthquake, the city is still waiting for emergency aid on expenses including debris removal, emergency response costs, and repairs to a major water storage tank and ...

A bipartisan bill passed by Congress on Tuesday will likely keep the development of early earthquake-warning projects in the Pacific Northwest on track, if approved by President Donald Trump. The bill ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Multnomah County residents will soon be able to weigh in on the forthcoming design for the Earthquake Ready Burnside Bridge Project. Design plans are nearing completion, but ...

Still awaiting a public discussion is SB 5 by Sen. David Burnett of Osceola and Rep. Monte Hodges of Blytheville to provide exceptions from the state’s earthquake resistant design standards by which ...

PORTLAND, Ore. - A new study shows a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake could injure 27,000 people, displace 85,000, kill 1,400 and cause $37 billion in damage to buildings in the Portland metro area ...

NASA needs your help to bolster current earthquake detection technologies, and they’re offering $25,000 to the team that develops the best way to detect an oncoming quake. The space agency calls its ...

An experimental program using a 6 degree-of-freedom earthquake simulator at the University at Buffalo was executed to generate data for supporting validation of numerical models for seismic ...

At least 144 people were killed and 730 injured after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar, the country's military government said. “The death toll and injuries are expected to rise,” Senior Gen Min ...

In this lesson, students consider the effects of the Kantō Tōhoku earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. They use photographs, a primary ...