A recent study found that a powerful quake off the Pacific Northwest could force the ground to sink up to 2 m, leading to ...

More than 17,000 people in Oregon, Washington and California could almost instantly be living in a floodplain, the ...

Washington state has seen several recent earthquakes ranging from small tremors near Tacoma and Vashon Island to larger ...

Scientists are sounding the alarm on a 'sleeping giant' off the coast of California, warning it could sink land in several ...

This subduction zone is called the Cascadia Subduction ... a suite of local earthquake fault simulations of tsunamis involving these earthquake sources. The Seattle Fault simulation is based ...

Night - Clear. Winds variable at 5 to 8 mph (8 to 12.9 kph). The overnight low will be 42 °F (5.6 °C). Sunny with a high of 73 °F (22.8 °C). Winds variable at 4 to 7 mph (6.4 to 11.3 kph ...

The facility recently conducted tests on the tallest full-scale building ever constructed for an earthquake simulator. The wood structure, designed to simulate a residential building, underwent ...

The earthquake, at 10:08 a.m., had a preliminary magnitude of 5.2 and was near the mountain town of Julian, east of San Diego, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The San Diego County Sheriff ...

In fact, it can be an adventure. At the Tokyo Earthquake Simulator, located inside the Tokyo Fire Department Headquarters & Citizen Disaster Prevention Education Center, disaster preparedness is ...

The new modular earthquake simulator allows us to test these non-structural components using realistic floor demands, in a way that has never been done before.” While UC has used a small ...

Yet, in a full-margin rupture of the Cascadia, the region could ... Diego could effectively be wiped off the map. With a record 15 seismic earthquake sequences occurring in Southern ...