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The National Science Foundation is awarding $15 million dollars over five years for a new Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center. It will focus on the potentially disastrous subduction zone off the West Coast.
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When The Big One happens, emergency planners and geologists expect the vast majority of us will survive. But a magnitude 9 rupture on the Cascadia...
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Scientists say it’s not a matter of if, but of when a devastating earthquake will hit the Pacific Northwest.University of Washington researchers have now…
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Vulnerability assessments by utilities and emergency planners along the U.S. West Coast suggest it could be weeks or a month or more before water...
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Public schools in Washington state would be encouraged—but not required—to hold at least one earthquake drill per year under a measure scheduled for Gov...
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Big earthquakes happen infrequently enough in the Northwest that people can be lulled into complacency. That’s not the case in Japan. Most large...
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The report cards are in and it's not pretty if you worry about how you'll fare after a magnitude 9 Cascadia megaquake and tsunami. Washington and Oregon...
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Planes and parachutes might be the best bet for getting supplies to cut-off areas in the event of a subduction zone earthquake. National Guard pilots...
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A massive, four-day earthquake drill kicks off Tuesday in the Pacific Northwest. The region is ripe for what officials say could be the biggest natural…
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Federal agencies and university scientists are making progress on the deployment of an earthquake early warning system for the West Coast. That was one ...