To help empower community members to prepare together, OEM is launching a new Be 2 Weeks Ready Toolkit. The digital version ...

This area, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, hosts a megathrust fault, a place where tectonic plates move against each ...

The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution to move forward with the inverted-Y ...

On Sept. 19, 1985, a massive quake resulted in nearly 10,000 deaths, but stories of survival, heroism and improved ...

Mexico's national drill is designed to help the public prepare for earthquakes and natural disasters, held on Sept. 19 every ...

Rather, they posit, the young planet was continuously rocked by large earthquakes which were triggered each time one tectonic plate slid under another in a subduction zone. Looking at de Ronde’s map ...

The two fossil specimens, representing a single coelacanth, were collected during a 2008 expedition to what was once an ...

A subduction zone, composed of the deep Aleutian Trench coupled with a landward line of volcanoes, creates a series of offshore islands (the Aleutians) as well as a line of volcanoes along the ...

A massive earthquake and tidal wave, very similar to what could happen when the Cascadia Subduction Zone has a major slip, caused considerable destruction in Japan in 2011. One of the major ongoing ...

Read the candidate’s responses to questions about homelessness, police accountability, Portland’s budget and taxes.