PANGA in the News

Central Washington University's PANGA Geodesy Lab in local, regional and national news


Roadside Geology: "CWU Rocks Roadside Geology: PANGA Highlight"
Nature: "Satellite system will speed up tsunami warnings. GPS networks could cut time needed for accurate alerts by a factor of ten. Tim Melbourne, a geodesist at Central Washington University in Ellensburg and the array's lead scientist, addressed a meeting of the Seismological Society of America..."
King 5 News: "High-tech system analyzes earthquakes in real time"
Seattle Times: "GPS netwok may give us jump on trouble underfoot"
Sequim Gazette:"Peninsula rocks out every 14 months"
Seattle PI:"How do we prepare for the next big earthquake?" By: Joel Connelly
Koho News Radio: Consequences of a Cascadia Megathrust Earthquake as learned from the Mw=9.1 earthquake in Japan
Tim Melbourne and Rex Flake on
National Geographic "Countdown to Catastrophe: Mega Quake"
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King 5 News: "Scientist still working to predict timing of earthquakes"

"GPS [is] a very powerful tool in terms of forecasting the size and the location of future earthquakes. The GPS network does allow us to say where and it allows us to say how big. As for when, there's no predicting when at those time scales," said Melbourne. But slow moving earthquakes happen almost like clockwork along the Cascadia subduction zone. "So that's given us a whole new window into what this fault is doing," said Melbourne. "Where that will lead in terms of predictability remains to be seen."

King 5 News: "Movement at Howard Hansen dam can now be measured in millimeters"
History Channel: "How the Earth was Made: The Ring of Fire"
King 5 News: "Can million-dollar stimulus grant protect us from earthquakes?"
Daily Record:
"Trembles around the globe bring Nisqually to mind"
Seattle Times:
"New studies put potential megaquake closer to Seattle"
King 5 News:
"New earthquake sensors to spot the big one"