PORTLAND, Ore. — Last September, two U.S. Geological Survey geologists and three graduate students from Portland State University trudged through the wilderness on the north side of Mount Hood. Their ...
Most Americans hear "earthquake" and immediately picture California. Crumbling freeways, shaking skyscrapers, Hollywood hills on the slide. That picture is not wrong, exactly, but it is dangerously ...
Most Americans think of earthquakes as a West Coast problem. California shakes, the news covers it, and everyone moves on. But seismologists have been quietly raising alarm bells about three fault ...
A series of “hidden” geological hazards has been uncovered in the northern reaches of Yellowstone National Park, including active faults that could pose earthquake threats to communities in the area.
An analysis of the response of buried continuous pipelines to active faults has led to development of a design guuideline for both onshore and offshore pipelines at fault crossings July 2, 2004 Click ...