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Megacity + Megaquake = Time Bomb: 'Thousands of people will die'
Jun 27, 2012 at 8:37 AM

CORVALLIS, Ore. – At the beginning of 2010, Oregon State University geologist Bob Yeats told a national reporter that Port au Prince, Haiti, was a “time bomb” for a devastating earthquake because of its crowded, poorly constructed buildings and...
Corvallis

Megacity + Megaquake = Time Bomb: 'Thousands of people will die'
Jun 27, 2012 at 7:00 AM
A week after an Oregon State professor called Port au Prince, Haiti, a time bomb for a devastating earthquake, a magnitude 7 quake killed hundreds of thousands there. He sees other ticking time bombs around the world's active faults.

Bracing for The Big One: 'We're all in this together'
May 3, 2011 at 4:01 PM
The March earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan, and experts say it's only a matter of time before an earthquake delivers the same kind of destruction here in Oregon.

Bracing for The Big One: Is Oregon ready?
Apr 27, 2011 at 1:05 PM
Experts say an earthquake is in Oregon's future, but is the state prepared for a 9.0 magnitude quake?

'If we were to have an earthquake ... it would be a major earthquake'
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Jan 24, 2011 at 6:16 PM
Nearly 30,000 Oregon residents have signed up to "drop, cover and hold on" for the Jan. 26 drill

'Earthquakes can’t be predicted ... but they can be prepared for'
Jan 19, 2011 at 4:20 PM
“It’s been a long struggle to convince Oregonians that these risks are real, that it will happen here and we have to prepare for it,” said Bob Yeats, a professor emeritus of geology at OSU and international leader in earthquake science and history.

'Earthquakes can’t be predicted ... but they can be prepared for'
Jan 19, 2011 at 4:20 PM
CORVALLIS, Ore. – As thousands of Oregonians participate next week in the “Great Oregon ShakeOut” – the state’s first comprehensive earthquake drill – they should consider the history of other global disasters and accept that such preparation in all...
Corvallis

State report highlights schools at risk in quake
Jun 6, 2007 at 5:24 PM