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Emergency management officials are planning for the Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake — in Redmond, Oregon

Makran Subduction Zone is like a nuclear weapon present in the sea and it can explode anytime, says National Tsunami Warning Centres director

Talking about tsunami exercises in Karachi and Gwadar, spokesperson says that these are routine exercises

Don Kahle crowdsourced new names for Oregon Ducks vs. Oregon State Beavers. Whats the best?

Researchers help prepare Portland International Airport for when The Big One hits Researchers at Oregon State University just saved the Portland International Airport more than $30 million — by blowing up the ground around it. Author: Keely Chalmers (KGW) Updated: 10:16 PM PDT July 8, 2021 The phenomenon is called liquefaction. It happens when sandy soil with shallow groundwater shakes in an earthquake and behaves like liquid. And its a danger the Pacific North...

South of New Zealand in the Tasman Sea is an extension of stormy ocean where the waves often dilate 6 meters (20 feet) or more and the winds usually blow at 48 km/h (30 mph) on a very good day

The melting of Earth's crust beneath a vast expanse of western North America is baffling researchers due to its unusual location inland. Crustal melting, which plays an important role in the [...]

In a March episode of PBS Terra‘s “Weathered,” meteorologist and host Maiya May showed how vulnerable the Pacific Northwest is to the so-called “Big One” earthquake along Cascadia. She said that this disaster would likely cause more damage to the U.S. than the magnitude 9 Tohoku earthquake did to Japan in 2011. “Here on the West Coast of the United States, we’re nowhere near as prepared as Japan was for this kind of disaster,” May said. It can tell an earthquake’s ...

 E-Mail The famous 1700 Cascadia earthquake that altered the coastline of western North America and sent a tsunami across the Pacific Ocean to Japan may have been one of a sequence of earthquakes, according to new research presented at the Seismological Society of America (SSA)s 2021 Annual Meeting. Evidence from coastlines, tree rings and historical documents confirm that there was a massive earthquake in the U.S. Cascadia Subduction Zone on 26 January 1700. The prevailing hypothesis is that ...

Feb. 26, 2021, entitled "National Preparedness: A Summary and Select Issues" by Lauren R. Stienstra, section research manager, and Shawn Reese, emergency management and homeland security policy analyst: SUMMARY The nation has faced challenges in the effort to respond to, and recover from, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Persistent challenges related to acquisition and delivery of diagnostic tests, production and management of personal protective equipment, and development a...