Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Despite the ever-looming threat of a major earthquake hitting the Cascadia Subduction Zone, efforts to ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Wednesday marks the last day Portlanders can weigh in on the final design for the city’s Earthquake Ready Burnside Bridge Project. Survey participants will get to consider ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - A grad student at UAF is helping with an Alaska Earthquake Center project aimed at developing a new method for better locating offshore earthquakes that could be integrated ...

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 ...

SOUTH WEBER — The immense natural processes that have formed the Earth over billions of years haven’t come to a stop just because modern societies have had the opportunity to proliferate on its ...

MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Ore. (KPTV) - A project to make the Burnside Bridge a seismically resilient bridge has received $10 million in funding, Multnomah County announced Tuesday. The funding for the ...

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PORTLAND, Ore. — The earthquake-ready Burnside Bridge Project will receive $10 million in funding through Oregon Metro's Regional Flexible Funding Allocation. Metro Council approved nearly a quarter ...

If and when a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake hits the Portland region, soil liquefaction could dramatically worsen the damage, leading buildings to tilt, roads to buckle and utility lines to ...