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A team of seismologists from UC Berkeley, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute are using data collected on Mexico’s earthquake early warning, or EEW, systems to inform the development of a system for the West Coast.
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Researchers at the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory and the campus department of earth and planetary sciences gained new insight into the movement of tectonics plates as a result of the multi-year study published Friday in the journal Science.
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New research from the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory may save lives and property by providing residents of coastal areas with more than 20 additional minutes to evacuate from dangerous tsunamis.
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A team of UC Berkeley researchers have created a mobile phone application to put earthquake detectors in pockets of smartphone users.
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36 House Democrats, led by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, and Rep. Derek Kilmer, D-Washington, asked Obama for $16.1 million to support the West Coast Earthquake Early Warning System.
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The United States Geological Survey awarded a $4 million grant Thursday to further develop an earthquake early warning system at four West Coast universities, including UC Berkeley.
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On Wednesday, the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory began installing the first of four underground seismometers designed to measure faint tremors occurring below the San Andreas fault.
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Campus seismologists have discovered that the Hayward Fault is connected to the Calaveras Fault, meaning that an earthquake could rupture on both faults and cause a more destructive earthquake than once thought.
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Peggy Hellweg, a research geophysicist at the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, was one of four individuals appointed to a state commission Monday. Gov. Jerry Brown appointed Hellweg to the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission. The commission, which meets every other month, aims to reduce the risk to people and property
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