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Starting in 2026, this blog will become a more active space for sharing timely updates related to Cascadia megathrust earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest. Designed to complement the Surviving Cascadia website, these posts will offer quick, easy-to-read summaries of newly released research, articles, publications, policy changes, and events of interest. The goal is simple: to make important information about Cascadia clearer, more accessible, and easier to follow as new developments emerge.
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On New Year’s Eve, FEMA’s acting chief, Karen Evans, instructed that roughly 50 of the agency’s Cadre of On-Call Response and Recovery (CORE) teams would not have their contracts renewed—letting them go just days before they were scheduled to finish their assignments. FEMA currently employs over 8,000 CORE staff—about 40% of its workforce—who are typically…
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Far off the West Coast, deep beneath the ocean, the Earth is slowly moving. We can’t see it happening, but those movements matter a lot for life on land—especially here in Cascadia. During the ONCabyss Summer 2025 expedition, Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) spent time tracking these hidden shifts along the Cascadia subduction zone, where one…
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