ON-001 Colorado Earthquake and Fault Map|Great Colorado ShakeOut contest illustration. General, 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 every year on the third Thursday of October across the state, the country, and the world. This year the official collective drill takes place Thursday, October 20th, 2022, at 10:20…
Earthquake damage: significant cracking and displacement in adobe wall of garage Geology, Hazards August 16, 2022 The Great ShakeOut The origins of The Great ShakeOut project lie, unsurprisingly, in Southern California, one of the more seismically active regions of the country. In 2008 a group of experts collaboratively modeled what might happen when a major earthquake hits the Southern California region. The detailed report, titled…
Excerpt drone shot from Dr. Christian Shorey's "Earth Explorations" vlog. General, Geology July 27, 2022 Earth Explorations vlog/podcasts Dr. Christian Shorey—Teaching Professor of Environmental Science and Climatology in the Geology and Geological Engineering Department at Mines—jumped into a social media experiment with the Earth and Environmental Systems Podcast in 2008. After producing more that 60 audio episodes he segued to the…
Skyline Drive General, Geology May 19, 2022 Fremont County geologic attractions Fremont County, two hours south of Denver, is located on the south-central Front Range of Colorado in a geological region called the Cañon City Embayment. Its geological environment and history is incredibly diverse as are its paleontological treasures. It is the only county in Colorado featuring two…
Mount Garfield from Interstate-70 General January 10, 2020 Welcome to the final CGS/RockTalk web iteration If you want to find out what's happening with the new CGS site, read here! Apologies for the incompleteness, it will improve on a daily basis, we promise!
MI-97 LiDAR-Based Map of the Cheraw Fault Scarp. Graphic credit: Colorado Geological Survey Hazards September 12, 2017 AEG Annual Meeting Members of our geoscience staff are busy this week participating in the Annual Meeting of the Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists taking place in Colorado Springs this year. CGS Director and State Geologist, Karen Berry, PG, is the Technical Session Moderator, the organizer of…