Hazards
September 23, 2022
The Great Colorado ShakeOut 2022
It’s coming up in less than four weeks! The Great Colorado ShakeOut is a public earthquake drill that takes place…
earthquake
Geology
August 16, 2022
The Great ShakeOut
The origins of The Great ShakeOut project lie, unsurprisingly, in Southern California, one of the more…
Hazards
March 25, 2022
CGS Seismic Stations
Early History The Colorado School of Mines first acquired and installed a single three-component seismograph in the…
Hazards
October 13, 2020
Seismometer installed on campus
Mines students partner with the CGS to install seismometer on campus Colorado School of Mines geophysics students enrolled…
Hazards
March 20, 2020
Trenching the Cheraw Fault in Southeastern Colorado
One of the missions of the CGS is to better understand the various geological risks that face the residents of…
Hazards
July 9, 2017
What to do before, during, and after an earthquake
Earthquakes strike suddenly, violently, and without warning. While Colorado is not as seismically active as some places, it does have…
Hazards
September 3, 2016
CGS seismometer array
The CGS recently installed the first of five new seismic recording stations that will collect information on seismic events…
Hazards
August 22, 2011
Case Study: The Trinidad, Colorado Earthquakes
[ED: Originally published in 2011 by Vincent Matthews, former State Geologist at the CGS.] Around midnight on August 22,…
General
February 28, 2008
The biggest, the best, the first, and the most diverse…
We have a free 8.5- x 11-inch (pdf) geologic map of Colorado containing Geo-Whizology of Colorado…
Geology
August 9, 1967
Case Study: Denver – August 9, 1967
Major magnitude 5.3 earthquake shock in Denver One of the strongest and most economically damaging earthquakes to affect the…
Geology
November 7, 1882
Case Study: The Big One
It has been 140 years since “The Big One”: Colorado’s largest historic earthquake: November 7, 1882 – Magnitude 6.6. On…