1-31-2012 - Helping communities on or near Mount Hood become more resilient to geologic hazards including volcano, landslide, flood, channel migration, and earthquakes is the primary goal of a new study released by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries.

Mount Hood poses significant volcanic landslide, flood, channel migration, and earthquake hazards to nearby communities and to the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area. Community assets (for example, people, roads, buildings, dams, and electrical systems) around the volcano are at risk from these hazards.

Preview the report or use the online Hazards and Assets Viewer for Mount Hood to learn more.

January 26, 2012 - On January 26, 1700, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, centered about 75 miles offshore, ruptured along a 600-mile-long fault running from Northern California to southern British Columbia, causing untold damage and destruction to the Pacific Northwest coast. The similar magnitude 9.0 earthquake offshore Japan on March 11, 2011 and the tsunami it generated provide a chilling parallel to what could happen here in Oregon.

01-24-2012 - The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch in effect for this evening through Wednesday evening for rivers and creeks in northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington.

-- Tsunami Inundation Maps for Coos Bay - North Bend (TIM Coos-05)

-- Geologic guide and recreation map for Mount Hood area

-- Interpretive Map 34, Landslide inventory maps of the Beaverton quadrangle, Washington County, Oregon

- Interpretive Map 35, Landslide inventory maps of the Linnton quadrangle, Multnomah and Washington Counties, Oregon

Final results of the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries' work on the statewide seismic needs assessment of Oregon education and emergency services buildings, as directed by the 73rd Legislative Assembly (Senate Bill 2, 2005).

Next Governing Board Meeting:
March 20, 2012
PSOB
800 NE Oregon St., Ste. 965
Portland, OR

Historical mine and commodities records, formerly available to the public at DOGAMI Portland and Grants Pass office reference libraries, are now available as PDF files in the Oregon Historical Mining Information (OHMI) archive. The first part of this ongoing project includes small-dimension maps, letters, news clippings, photographs, and reports. The agency plans to combine OHMI records with the GIS-based Mineral Information Layer for Oregon (MILO).

MILO-2 is a geospatial database that stores and manages information regarding Oregon's mineral occurrences, prospects, and mines. A subset of the data is shown on the interactive map; order the full data set from nature of the Northwest.

12-2-2011 - DOGAMI Open-File Report O-11-17, "Baseline Observations and Modeling for the Reedsport Wave Energy Site, Douglas County, Oregon: Monitoring Beach and Shoreline Morphodynamics," by Jonathan C. Allan, Roger Hart, and Laura L. Stimely describes and summarizes baseline observations from monitoring the response of the beach and shorelines along approximately 16 km of the north Umpqua Spit shoreline adjacent to the proposed Ocean Power Technology (OPT) Reedsport wave energy site.

11-29-11 - A $2 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to the University of Washington will provide a monitoring and warning system for very large coastal earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest.