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The earthquake that rattled Berkeley early Thursday morning, the ninth tremor in a little over a week, could signal that more quakes, and maybe even the “Big One,” are on their way. The string of quakes in Berkeley on the Hayward Fault began with a magnitude 4.0 quake last Thursday
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This page will aggregate The Daily Californian’s coverage of earthquakes as well as earthquake safety and preparedness in Berkeley. Follow The Daily Californian on Twitter for the latest updates as they happen. Co-ops work to raise funds for seismic retrofits By Anjuli Sastry | 11/4/11 Berkeley Student Cooperative residents will
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A magnitude 3.6 earthquake rattled Berkeley early Thursday morning, making it the ninth quake centered in the city since last Thursday. The earthquake hit at 5:36 a.m. with an epicenter just north of Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor caused light shaking and no
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Since Thursday, Berkeley has been at the center of at least eight earthquakes. The first, and largest, was a 4.0 magnitude quake that hit just before 3 p.m. Thursday and was centered under South Berkeley, according to U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor was followed by three smaller earthquakes in the
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A bat infected with rabies was recently found in Berkeley, prompting the city to send out a media release about how to protect against rabies. Soumya Karlamangla is the assistant city news editor.
Police responded to an armed robbery directly south of the UC Berkeley campus on Sunday morning. At about 8:30 a.m., a woman was walking on the 2300 block of Channing Way, near Dana Street, when a man passed her on the sidewalk, turned around and pointed a gun at her,
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A proposal for a charter school was turned down by the Berkeley Unified School District’s Board of Education this week. The board followed with the staff recommendation at its Wednesday meeting to reject the proposal for Integrity Education Center, an earlier version of which the board denied earlier this year.
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Officers from the Berkeley Police Department and UCPD responded to an apartment burglary on Southside early Saturday morning. A little after 1:30 a.m., a resident at 2555 Benvenue Ave. — on the corner of Benvenue and Parker Street — awoke to see someone in their apartment, according to Berkeley police Lt. Andrew
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As the Berkeley Unified School District Board of Education convenes for the first time this month, the board is planning on doling out an all too familiar verdict. Soumya Karlamangla is the assistant city news editor.
After two years of detention in Iranian prison, UC Berkeley alumni Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal spoke Sunday for the first time since landing on American soil. Bauer and Fattal, who were released Wednesday on a $1 million bail after two years of imprisonment for allegedly crossing the Iran-Iraq border
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