When trying to improve, refine, and seek more efficiency in disaster management measures, predicting the extent of disaster ...

A new analysis of earthquake rupture directivity provides essential insights for seismic hazard and risk assessments in urban ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek paused referrals for wildfire hazard map appeals on Monday, which come amid calls from state lawmakers to repeal the maps altogether. Kotek ...

SO 6000 HOMES AND THIS IS WHAT’S BEEN DESIGNATED AS THE HIGH FIRE HAZARD SEVERITY ZONE. THE HIGH RISK RED AREA ON THE MAP IS TRACY HILLS. A NEW DEVELOPMENT ANNEXED SOUTH OF THE CITY OF TRACY.

The first is the probabilistic hazard map. If we can calculate the likelihood of buildings collapsing in various types of earthquakes, or areas being submerged in different rainfall scenarios ...

Tina Kotek has paused any further agency action on the state’s new Wildfire Hazard Map until the Legislature decides what to do with it. Kotek on Monday directed the Oregon Department of ...

New fire hazard severity maps show dramatic increases in some areas of Sonoma and Napa counties and around San Jose. In Contra Costa County, the fire hazard severity level decreased for some but ...

The Salem Police Department is searching for a man who stabbed a 19-year-old in broad daylight across the street from an elementary school. On Monday, Portland State University was among 60 ...

(KATU) — Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek has ordered the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) to continue to accept all appeals of the Oregon Wildfire Hazard Map up to the Mar. 10 deadline but to pause ...

Robinson introduced a bill (SB 678) that would fully repeal SB 762, but he and others left the door open to only repealing the hazard map. Senate President Rob Wagner, D-Lake Oswego, said he would ...