and it’s important for members of the community to be aware of how they should respond if we experience an earthquake,” said Jefferson Howells, director of Purdue’s Emergency Preparedness and Planning ...

Article Continues Below—— Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drills are an opportunity for your campus community to learn ... and to learn about your overall preparedness plans. Millions of people ...

The U.S. Geological Survey indicates that an area near Ottawa, Canada, was the center of a 5.0 magnitude earthquake. Local media outlets are covering the story and are providing continuing updates.

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a 1,000-kilometer long fault off the west coast of the United States that stretches from British Columbia to Northern California and separates the ...

Planning is an important avenue to community emergency preparedness ... tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes), technological accidents (toxic chemical releases, nuclear power plant accidents ...

There’s a consistent and well-documented finding in disaster research: the better you know your neighbors, the better your ...

we are constantly looking for resources to help those in our community. With the threat of an impending hurricane upon the east coast and those not familiar with earthquake preparedness ...

While we have continuing exercises and trainings at the Emergency Coordination Center, this year we will be getting to test our community’s earthquake preparedness through a multi-state exercise ...

Following the community's major ice storm, representatives from relief agencies presented a program filled with critical information about preparedness for disasters and earthquakes Saturday at ...