Geology
August 16, 2022
The Great ShakeOut
The origins of The Great ShakeOut project lie, unsurprisingly, in Southern California, one of the more…
seismicity
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…
Geology
April 15, 2021
A few new publications
For those of you who are recent subscribers to the CGS mailing list, we wanted to direct your attention to…
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
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 around…
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,…
Geology
November 7, 1882
Case Study: The Big One
Colorado’s largest historic earthquake: November 7, 1882 – Magnitude 6.6 On Tuesday, November 7, 1882 at about 6:30 p.m. local…