Soon, Oakland may have a soft story retrofit ordinance
The ordinance will apply to soft story apartment buildings built before 1991. The main reason they are doing this is [...]
Glenwood Springs hit by 2 earthquakes
Aspen, Colorado was woken up by one earthquake and then a follow up earthquake. The first one was around Glenwood [...]
a 7.1 earthquake near Antarctica
On Monday the 7.1 earthquake struck on southern Pacific Ocean. The U.S. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said in an advisory [...]
Oregon has a new playbook for preparing and responding to a major earthquake
Oregon faces the threat of a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that would hot the 700-mile Cascadia Subduction Zone. [...]
A 3.2 quake strikes Castle Rock Springs
Residents of Castle Rock springs were going to bed, not before a 3.2 magnitude hit at 11:38 p.m. So, [...]
How do you compare earthquakes?
Magnitude, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, “is a number that characterizes the relative size of an earthquake." To [...]
No one died in Alaska’s 7.0 earthquake that hit Friday
There has been countless stories about the earthquake that happen last Friday. The main thing they all have in [...]
Seattle area residents could be without water after a big quake
A new seismic analysis shows as the ground stops shaking the water in the pipes would drain away after a [...]