With $5B Quake Damage and a Critical Mission, China Lake Maps Out Base Repairs
Damage was studied at 3,598 facilities, many highly specialized, across 1.1M acres after 288 quakes last month. Keep Reading
Retrofitting Options Emerge for an Oregon Dam at Risk of Earthquake Failure
Scoggins Dam was built in the early 1970s to hold back water from the Tualatin River to form Hagg Lake. It has been classified as a seismically at-risk dam. Keep Reading
New Partnership to Build Public Awareness of Global Earthquake Risk
The estimated losses trigger the appropriate color-coded alert, which determines the suggested levels of response – critical information used by emergency responders. Keep Reading
FEMA Prep Talk: Spreading Preparedness Via ‘The Big One: Your Survival Guide’
FEMA Deputy Administrator for Resilience Daniel Kaniewski said, “As the recent earthquakes in California demonstrate, we must be prepared." Keep Reading
NASA Maps Surface Changes from California Quakes
State and federal scientists are using this surface deformation map in the field for assessing the damages and mapping the faults that broke. Keep Reading
Yellowstone Volcano Eruption Fears Triggered by California Earthquakes
After two strong earthquakes hit in California last week, there was a spike in internet searches for Yellowstone caldera and Yellowstone volcano. Keep Reading
China Lake Weapons Complex Rendered ‘Not Mission Capable’ by 7.1 Earthquake
The U.S. Geological Survey said Saturday that there is a 2 percent chance over this week of "one or more aftershocks that are larger than magnitude 7.1." Keep Reading
July 4 Tremor Was Just a Foreshock: 7.1 Quake Hits Navy’s China Lake Base
The guilty fault zone will keep shaking for a while: "We have never seen a sequence like this suddenly stop... it's far from unprecedented." Keep Reading
ShakeAlertLA: Here’s Why a 6.4 Earthquake Didn’t Trigger an Alert from Early Warning System
Seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones said the ShakeAlert computer system at Caltech's seismic lab registered a 48-second warning that shaking had begun. Keep Reading
Magnitude 6.4 Earthquake Hits Mojave Desert
Preceded a half-hour beforehand by a 4.0 quake, it's the largest temblor in SoCal since the 1999 7.1 magnitude Hector Mine earthquake. Keep Reading
