PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Despite the ever-looming threat of a major earthquake hitting the Cascadia Subduction Zone, efforts to reinforce Portland’s Burnside Bridge have been delayed. Multnomah County ...

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Research conducted by Civil Engineering Professor Keri Ryan and her team last May is advancing the relatively new field of non-structural earthquake engineering. The team’s work was part of a ...

Over the next three years, researchers—including students—will continue to evaluate the cables’ ability to monitor seismic ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Multnomah County’s Earthquake Ready Burnside Bridge Project is moving into its next phase after receiving federal approval on Friday. After reviewing the project’s ...

PORTLAND, Ore (KOIN) — The Earthquake Ready Burnside Bridge Project just received a big boost in funding from Oregon Metro. The project — to ensure that the Burnside Bridge will survive a major ...

A construction project that would help ensure access across the Willamette River in Salem in the event of a major earthquake has been delayed three years and the cost may be more than triple what ...

Seismologists and earthquake engineers in Utah have long spoken of “the big one.” An earthquake somewhere along the Wasatch Fault could result in approximately 2,500 deaths, $33 billion in economic ...

Researchers from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel and the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences in ...

A $1.2 billion project to rebuild the largest dam in Santa Clara County to reduce the risk of it failing in a major earthquake has finally begun to make significant visible progress, as construction ...