Portland’s Affordable Housing Includes 2,090 Units in Buildings That Would Crumble in a Big Earthquake

It appears that new safety requirements pose a problem for the city’s own finances.

Portland’s Doomsday Preppers Will Help You Survive the End of the World. For a Fee.

There's a Very Slow Earthquake Under the Puget Sound—Does This Make the Big One More Likely?

If you read Patch or your panicky friends’ Facebook feed, you’ll be hearing that we’re entering some sort of seismological Mercury retrograde—when the Cascadia Earthquake, aka The Really Big One, is more likely.

What You Should Do Before You Build an Emergency Kit for the Cascadia Earthquake

What will the apocalypse look like? Ever since Nov. 8, it’s been hard not to imagine the United States morphing into a lawless, post-nuclear wasteland ruled by Immortan Trump. Yet Oregon faces a threat that’s arguably more dangerous than the rise of any despot, the looming Cascadia earthquake.