We are excited to announce the release of two new open resources developed through CRESCENT: the Earthquake Catalog Repository and Viewer and the Cascadia Ground Failure Viewer. These platforms provide curated datasets and interactive visualization tools for exploring seismicity and ground-failure processes in Cascadia, supporting research, education, and hazard assessment.
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Read about: the launch of the new Tsunami Sources for Hazard Awareness Special Interest Group, new and evolving CRESCENT cyberinfrastructure tools, working group activities and appointments, topical workshop opportunities, the 2026 Seed Grant call for proposals, professional development and technical short course offerings, partnership convenings, recent publications and recognitions, CLiP webinars, upcoming events… and more in the latest edition of Seismic Moment — CRESCENT’s Quarterly Newsletter.
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We are delighted to announce the formation of a new CRESCENT Special Interest Group – the Tsunami Sources for Hazard Assessment SIG (TSHA SIG).
See the TSHA webpage for more information and opportunities to contribute and follow the work of this SIG.
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Coordinated in collaboration with CRESCENT, the CLiP Webinar Series showcases advances in seismic hazard assessment, infrastructure design, and earthquake resilience initiatives. These monthly webinars are free to the community and will be of particular interest to practicing engineers, industrial scientists, and policy makers.
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This is the third Partnerships & Application workshop, designed to explore the challenges and needs of the multi-disciplinary community involved in earthquake hazard study and mitigation in the Pacific Northwest. Workshop discussions in 2024 and 2025 highlighted universal interest in developing scenarios and inter-organizational exercises for preparedness and response as a priority next step. Consequently, a deeper consideration of scenarios has been selected as the central theme for the 2026 P&A workshop.
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CRESCENT is pleased to share a new set of open-source tools for building realistic 3D fault surfaces directly in QGIS (a free, cross-platform GIS application). These tools are designed to help researchers create non-planar, data-constrained fault geometries from standard geologic and geophysical inputs, including geologic maps, balanced cross-sections, seismic images, and earthquake hypocenters.
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Read about: recent CRESCENT meetings, USGS Coorperative Agreement projects, a new megathrust fault interface geometry study, Seed Grant program research reports, geoscience education twinning program updates, Partnerships & Applications workshop outcomes, 2025-26 Cascadia Lifelines Program Webinar series, new publications, upcoming events, AGU session listings… and more in the latest edition of “Seismic Moment” – CRESCENT’s Quarterly Newsletter.
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Read about: Cascadia Paleoseismology viewer release, new tsunami benchmark exercises, Seed Grant awardees, geoscience education programs, workshop reports, partner activities, new publications, upcoming events… and more in the latest edition of “Seismic Moment” – CRESCENT’s Quarterly Newsletter.
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The CRESCENT Seed Grant Program has the dual goals of broadening community participation and increasing the breadth of scientific investigations related to the center’s goals. The center invited the community to participate through a proposal call to address key scientific challenges identified through CRESCENT’s three major pillars. This year we had 33 seed grant applicants of which 11 were funded.
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Read about: CRESCENT Community Velocity Model and Community Fault Model viewer release, topical workshops, geoscience education programs and outreach, University of Oregon seismic hazard monitoring and resilience research, new publications, upcoming events… and more in the latest edition of “Seismic Moment” – CRESCENT’s Quarterly Newsletter.
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