The fact of the matter is foreign aid policy is more political than personal. Often, even if a foreign country has high levels of extreme poverty, other nations will reduce aid if the foreign country’s political leaders act contrary to the prevailing will of the donating country. Read More…
Berkeley was shaken by a magnitude 3.2 earthquake early Tuesday morning. Read More…
A 3.1 magnitude earthquake briefly shook Berkeley at 9:26 p.m. Sunday night. Read More…
As Californians await the next big earthquake, they soon may breathe a sigh of relief, knowing they can receive a warning before the earthquake strikes. Read More…
Tucked in an unassuming neighborhood in a district two miles southwest of the UC Berkeley campus, the “world’s safest” house stands boldly. And so does Eugene Tssui, a Cal alumnus and the house’s architect. In the past 20 years, the pair has challenged conventional wisdom and defied architecture’s status quo. Buying Read More…
A magnitude-2.7 earthquake was registered along the Berkeley-Oakland border Friday morning.The quake struck along the Hayward Fault at 9:25 a.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Read More…
Berkeley felt two earthquakes early Monday morning that hit within seconds of each other. The first was a magnitude-3.5 quake that hit at 5:33 a.m. in El Cerrito — about four miles north of Berkeley, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake was originally thought to be of magnitude Read More…
Two earthquakes that hit about 20 miles away from Berkeley were felt in the city on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning. At 6:09 p.m. Wednesday and 9:13 a.m. Thursday, 3.5 magnitude quakes struck Crockett, Calif., which is 19 miles north of Berkeley, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The coordinates Read More…
Berkeley felt a small earthquake that hit a few miles north of the UC Berkeley campus Sunday afternoon. With an epicenter in the Berkeley Hills, the quake hit at 12:41 p.m. and had a magnitude of 1.4, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. View Earthquake 1.22.12 in a larger map Read More…
Berkeley was hit by a small earthquake Friday afternoon, with an epicenter near Sather Tower on the UC Berkeley campus, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Geological Survey. The 1.2 magnitude earthquake hit at 4:49 p.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The coordinates provided by the agency put Read More…