The University of Alaska Fairbanks received a $350,000 cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) to provide informational support for developing an earthquake early warning implementation plan for Alaska. Key activities include compiling data on population and infrastructure, summarizing seismic monitoring assets, identifying engagement opportunities, and estimating costs for network upgrades and staffing...
This $1,559,996 Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) under the Earthquake Hazards Program Assistance (CFDA 15.807), supports the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system for the U.S. West Coast region. The University of Oregon, along with partners at the University of California Berkeley, California Institute of Technology, University of Washington, and University of Oregon, will collaborate to...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) under the Earthquake Hazards Program Assistance (CFDA 15.807) will provide $3,319,999.87 to support the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system for the West Coast of the United States from August 15, 2024 through August 14, 2027. The award will fund activities to complete the sensor station network, remediate underperforming stations, and operate and maintain the...
This $3,100,000 Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Earthquake Hazards Program Assistance (CFDA 15.807), supports the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system for the U.S. West Coast. Key activities include: Completing the sensor station network, remediating underperforming stations, and operating and maintaining all stations to ensure continuous and secure data flow to the regional processing...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) under the Earthquake Hazards Program Assistance (CFDA 15.807) program, supports the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system for the U.S. West Coast. The $2,478,580 award, with a performance period from August 15, 2024 to August 14, 2027, will enable the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and its collaborators at the University of...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) under the Earthquake Hazards Program Assistance (CFDA 15.807) provides $669,000.00 in funding to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) from February 1, 2025 through January 31, 2030. The purpose of this award is to support the Alaska Earthquake Center as a Tier 1 partner within the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS). Key activities include generating and disseminating earthquake solutions, earthquake...
This $572,375 Cooperative Agreement award from the United States Geological Survey's (USGS) Earthquake Hazards Program Assistance (CFDA 15.807) supports the University of Nevada, Reno in enhancing the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system in Eastern California. The key activities include: Ensuring 39 existing ShakeAlert seismic stations along the California-Nevada border meet performance standards and contribute reliable data for earthquake alerts. Installing 19 new seismic stations in...
This $361,006 Cooperative Agreement award from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Earthquake Hazards Program Assistance (CFDA 15.807) supports Central Washington University's continued work to operate and improve real-time GNSS positioning for the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system. Key activities include migrating the FastLane positioning software to the cloud, implementing new positioning models, and expanding the messaging capabilities of the BNC client software. The...
The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $188,294 project grant to The University of New Mexico under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of August 1, 2022 through July 31, 2024. The grant will support research to investigate structure and seismicity within the southern region of the 1964 Great Alaska earthquake rupture area using a dense node array. Specifically, the grantee will reanalyze seismic data collected in 2019 by 400...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant, awarded to the University of Wisconsin-Madison on August 1, 2024, provides $201,306 in funding over 3 years for a collaborative research project investigating seismic hazards along the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone. The project aims to combine data from a traditional land-based broadband seismic deployment and a distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) experiment along the Cook Inlet in Alaska to model the...