earthquakes

Mount Adams normally experiences a small earthquake every few years. But recent events have shaken expectations—there were six small quakes in September alone.

State lawmakers in Washington and Oregon are looking to toughen standards to ensure public buildings can offer shelter after major earthquakes.

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.

A network of volunteers based in Seattle, founded in part as a response to the Gulf War, is coordinating deliveries of aid to earthquake survivors in Syria.

The earthquake early warning system known as ShakeAlert will be capable of delivering alerts directly to wireless devices in Oregon on March 11 and to…

One way to predict the risk of earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest is to look at how often they occurred in the past – and, for several groups of...

One of the key elements of your emergency kit should be enough drinking water to be self-sufficient for days or weeks after a big earthquake. That task...

The state of Washington is allocating $200,000 to inventory how many old buildings statewide could collapse in an earthquake. That money is included in...

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...

An earthquake early warning system under development for the West Coast gets a major boost in the new federal budget that President Donald Trump signed...