earthquake
November 25, 2023
1,100 years ago, double earthquake hit Seattle region, researchers prove
Solving a seismic mystery, researchers prove the Northwest was once hit with a double whammy.
May 28, 2023
Seeps from the deep
A recent UW-led study exploring the seafloor about 50 miles off Newport, Oregon, discovered seeps of warm, chemically distinct liquid shooting up.
June 13, 2017
A conscious connection
Denise Attwood, '88, helped raise $130,000 for relief efforts after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal.
September 1, 2016
Deep data
In April 2015, the Axial Seamount, an active underwater volcano about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, erupted. For the first time ever, scientists, engineers and students from the UW and around the world could watch it in real time thanks to an elaborate array of sensors they installed a year earlier.
March 1, 2010
Huskies in Haiti
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake, numerous UW Medicine and Health Sciences faculty, students and health professionals went to Haiti to treat the injured and sick and care for the displaced.
December 1, 2008
Students to the rescue
A charitable group set up by two UW students after the May 12 earthquake in China’s Sichuan Province has been as no-nonsense as its name, raising $65,000 for children in the disaster zone and winning a prestigious award
December 1, 2005
Masters of disaster
Before Katrina and the South Asia tsunami, departments across the UW had already come together to help professionalize humanitarian relief efforts. Afterwards, they were far too busy to say, “I told you so.”
$33 billion risk
A UW Bothell business professor says that the Puget Sound region could suffer $33 billion in property damage and economic losses following a magnitude 6.7 earthquake along the Seattle Fault.
September 1, 2002
Jewel renewal
After a decade of planning and construction, a $47 million price tag and a 6.8 earthquake, Suzzallo Library returns to its rightful place as the soul of the university.
June 1, 2001
What lies beneath
It terrified many, but the Nisqually earthquake boosted an effort to map the geology of Seattle, helping prepare the region for the "Big One."
'Earthquake Guy'
Bill Steele's official title is coordinator of the UW’s Seismology Laboratory, but you’d know him as the “Earthquake Guy.”
June 1, 1996
Ray Clough, ’42, wins renown as earthquake expert
A 1942 graduate of the UW civil engineering program, Ray Clough was presented with a National Medal of Science by President Clinton.
March 1, 1995
Tsunami research
UW engineers have found that even localities sheltered from storm-driven waves can be wiped out by the earthquake-driven tsunamis.
March 1, 1993
All shook up
UW and USGS researchers have found evidence of a fault that runs directly through the center of Seattle and could generate a 7.5 quake.
A fault runs through it
The discovery of the Seattle fault and a major quake 1,000 years ago was an alarm bell for engineers and emergency planners.