UW Earthquake Hazard and Risk Resources

July 9, 2019

UW and USGS Researchers Featured in King 5 News Article

Dr. Erin Wirth (USGS) and Professor Marc Eberhard (UW Civil and Environmental Engineering) were quoted in a King 5 News article, titled “Lessons from California earthquakes: What Seattle should know about ‘basin effects.” https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/disaster/lessons-from-california-earthquakes-what-seattle-should-know-about-basin-effects/281-b18f3858-282d-44d4-a76c-441a1cc83051 Read more


Yingqing Qiu (OSU) M9 Seminar on Behavior of Coastal Sediments During Tsunamis

We are delighted to host Yingqing Qiu, PhD candidate in the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University at our upcoming All Hands meeting. She is working on earthquake rupture models and then propagating tsunami generation, to investigate sediment instability on the shoreline. We will be meeting in ATG 154 on July……