The developer of the Napa Pipe project insists his development can be built safely despite its location less than a half mile from the West Napa Fault, the rupture of which caused significant damage ...

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If and when a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake hits the Portland region, soil liquefaction could dramatically worsen the damage, leading buildings to tilt, roads to buckle and utility lines to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Wednesday marks the last day Portlanders can weigh in on the final design for the city’s Earthquake Ready Burnside Bridge Project. Survey participants will get to consider ...

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 ...

Here are 10 takeaways from The Oregonian/OregonLive’s four-part series on school seismic safety in the Portland area.

Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Cottage Health soon will complete its decadelong, $750 million project to rebuild its Santa Barbara hospital to make it earthquake-resistant, according to a Noozhawk report ...

A UK e-Science project is revealing new scientific insights into earthquakes. Technologies developed under the Discovery Net project are enabling geophysicists to combine two different methods of ...