Combining smartphone technology with robotics, a UC Berkeley research team created a fleet of floating robots that they first launched on May 9 to gather data about freshwater flows in rivers and deltas. The goal of the project, officially called the Floating Sensor Network, is to use robots that will Read More…
Berkeley High School joined millions of people worldwide who dove under their desks and tables Thursday as part of a coordinated earthquake preparedness drill. 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…
A small earthquake hit just a few miles south of the UC Berkeley campus Monday evening. At 9:33 p.m. Monday, a magnitude .9 earthquake struck in Piedmont, a few blocks east of the intersection of Claremont and College avenues, according to data from the U.S. Geological Survey. View 01.17.2011 earthquake Read More…
Berkeley was hit by a magnitude 2.2 earthquake Tuesday afternoon. The quake, which struck at 2:59 p.m. Tuesday, caused weak shaking and no damage, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicenter of the earthquake was north of the UC Berkeley, near Lawrence Hall of Science. The U.S.G.S. response system Read More…
A 2.7 magnitude earthquake struck Berkeley Thursday evening, with its epicenter near Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on the UC Berkeley campus. The quake, which hit at 9:18 p.m. Thursday, caused weak shaking and no damage, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake was felt as far away as San Read More…
