Oregon, Washington real-time tsunami alerts going offline due to federal funding cuts, lawmaker warns

A $300,000 grant cut to the Alaska Earthquake Center could force nine stations offline and delay warnings for Alaska, ...

NOAA funding cut raises concerns over future tsunami alert accuracy

According to the Oregon Department of Emergency Management, NOAA canceled a $300,000 contract with the AEC. This will impact ...

NOAA ending contract with Alaska Earthquake Center could have ramifications in the PNW

The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network operates more than 600 seismic stations. The center in Alaska added an additional 250 ...
Oregonian

Could your Portland-area school crumble in an earthquake? 10 takeaways

In the face of a looming Cascadia earthquake, an Oregonian/OregonLive investigation into the structural integrity of Portland-area schools revealed that years after initial warnings, many students ...

Under scrutiny, Portland Public Schools unveils new draft formula for seismic upgrades

The new draft gives 90% of the weight to “structural vulnerability and life-safety priorities," for schools at high risk of ...

Final community design advisory group meeting on Burnside Bridge project held

Community members gathered on Thursday night to take part in the final community design advisory group for the Earthquake ...
The Spokesman-Review

San Andreas, Cascadia faults could combine to produce back-to-back earthquake disasters, new research suggests

They are two of the West Coast’s most destructive generators of huge earthquakes: The San Andreas fault in California and the Cascadia subduction zone offshore of California’s North Coast, Oregon, ...