SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Department of Emergency Management is preparing to host IronOR 24, a statewide emergency exercise taking place October 28-31 This four-day exercise is designed to test Oregon’s capabilities and readiness in responding to a catastrophic Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake. Building upon the Cascadia Rising 2016 exercise, which simulated the immediate response
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — As wildfires raging in the mountains cast an orange glow behind the downtown Los Angeles skyline, Southern California residents were jolted awake Thursday by another reminder of Mother Nature’s might. It was an all-too-familiar feeling for locals when a 4.7 magnitude earthquake rattled the Los Angeles area, unleashing boulders
Continue ReadingBy Ray Sanchez and Alaa Elassar, CNN New York (CNN) — A 4.8 magnitude earthquake rattled buildings across parts of the Northeast Friday morning, according to the US Geological Survey, with tremors felt from Washington, DC to New York City to Maine. It was the third largest earthquake recorded in the area in the last
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PORT ORFORD, Ore. (KGW/KTVZ) — The US Geological Survey reported a series of seven earthquakes Tuesday off the southern Oregon coast, all about 100 to 150 miles southwest of Port Orford, ranging from 3.0 to 5.7 in magnitude, KGW reported Wednesday. All of the quakes recorded a depth of about 6.2 miles and no injuries were reported. A total of
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Exploring the Oregon coast this spring break? Take time to plan for an earthquake and tsunami before your adventure. It’s Tsunami Awareness Week, March 24-30 . March marks the anniversaries of two significant earthquake and tsunami disasters that impacted the Oregon coast: the March 11, 2011, Tohoku event in Japan and
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Monday marked three years since the ShakeAlert® Earthquake Early Warning System went live in Oregon. The earthquake detection tool, operated by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), uses science and technology to detect significant earthquakes so alerts can be delivered to people on their cell phones before damaging shaking arrives at their location. ShakeAlert
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho. (AP) — An earthquake of 4.9 magnitude struck north of Boise, Idaho, on Monday, reportedly causing no major damage or injuries, authorities said. The quake happened at 10:25 a.m. and was centered about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) north of Smiths Ferry, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Two smaller earthquakes followed in the
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Around 9 p.m. on January 26th, 1700, a powerful magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which extends from Vancouver Island in British Columbia to Cape Mendocino in California. This earthquake released energy equivalent to about two billion tons of TNT, leading to significant impacts along the Oregon coast,
Continue ReadingBy Emiko Jozuka, Hanako Montgomery, Chie Kobayashi and Alex Stambaugh CNN Tokyo (CNN) — A 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck central Japan on Monday afternoon, collapsing buildings, causing fires and triggering tsunami alerts as far away as eastern Russia, prompting orders for residents to evacuate affected coastal areas of Japan. The earthquake left six people dead
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan, Mengchen Zhang, Wayne Chang and Maija Ehlinger, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — At least 131 people were killed and hundreds more injured after an earthquake hit northwest China, state media reported Tuesday, as rescue teams scrambled to reach survivors in sub-zero temperatures. The quake, China’s deadliest in nearly a decade, rocked Jishishan
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VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — More than 400 earthquakes have been detected beneath Washington’s Mount St. Helens in recent months, though there are no signs of an imminent eruption, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Most of the quakes over a three-month span beginning in mid-July were less than magnitude 1.0 and too small to be
Continue ReadingBy Sugam Pokharel, Jennifer Hauser and Jerome Taylor, CNN Kathmandu (CNN) — At least 157 people have been killed in an earthquake that struck a remote part of northwestern Nepal overnight on Friday and toppled multiple buildings, according to police, as officials warned that the death toll could rise. The quake measured magnitude 5.6 according
Continue Reading CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon State University researchers will play key roles in a new multi-institution earthquake research center dedicated to the study of the Pacific Northwest’s Cascadia Subduction Zone, which is capable of producing earthquakes comparable to the largest recorded globally. The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $15 million over five years to the Cascadia
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh and Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — A tsunami advisory issued after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska late Saturday has since been canceled, officials said. The earthquake hit offshore about 55 miles southwest from Sand Point, Alaska, at a depth of 13 mi. on Saturday around 10:48 p.m.
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Earthquakes can strike any time without warning, as many Oregonians experienced last Friday when a magnitude 4.4 quake occurred in Linn County. When the earth starts to shake, people need to know how to best protect themselves.
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Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a computational model for predicting the resilience of local and regional infrastructure networks and the recovery time for impacted communities following a massive earthquake and tsunami in the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — More than a half-dozen earthquakes were reported off the Oregon Coast early Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. KOIN-TV reports a 3.8-magnitude quake was recorded at 2:54 a.m. about 274 miles (441 kilometers) west of Newport. Over the next four hours, seven more earthquakes were recorded in similar areas.
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The United States Geological Survey says an earthquake shook off the Oregon coast Tuesday morning. KOIN-TV reports that the 4.0 magnitude quake was recorded at 5:43 a.m, about 120 miles west of Bandon. In the last three weeks, eight small earthquakes have been recorded in the general area. Most of them
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Nearly 30 shallow earthquakes — too small to be felt — have occurred in the past week and a half beneath the eastern shore of Paulina Lake at Newberry Volcano, but U.S. Geological Survey seismologists said Monday they are not a cause for alarm and are “likely the result of fluids moving in the hydrothermal system.”
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Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., joined their West Coast colleagues in the Senate on Wednesday to request details from the U.S. Geological Survey on future plans and funding needs for the West Coast Early Earthquake Warning (EEW) system.
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