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With the government shutdown of the U.S. Geological Survey, or USGS, Menlo Park office, the UC Berkeley Seismology Laboratory, or BSL, is now responsible for monitoring Northern California seismic activity.
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The ShakeAlert system detects initial seismic P-waves, which are nondamaging, to allow BART to prepare for the damaging S-waves that follow. The system was described as a lifesaver by lawmakers and BART representatives in a press conference following Monday’s demonstration.
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A 4.4 magnitude earthquake hit Berkeley early Thursday morning, jolting residents awake throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
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California’s recent widespread death of trees — affecting 102 million trees since 2010 — is raising environmental concerns among fire and ecology experts.
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Human activity and climate change both play important roles in causing wildfires in California, according to a study published last Thursday.
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At a White House event Tuesday, Congress appropriated $8.2 million from the federal budget to improve the earthquake warning system ShakeAlert, designed at UC Berkeley.
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The Berkeley City Council began looking into possibly retrofitting six community sites at a special meeting Tuesday, after a seismic evaluations report declared the buildings unfit in the event of a disaster.
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A report on hydraulic fracturing commissioned by the California State Legislature called for reforms in water storage and data monitoring.
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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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A UC Berkeley professor joined forces with fellow seismologists to release a groundbreaking study Wednesday that links a rise in earthquake frequency in California’s Central Valley to the pumping of groundwater in the area. Roland Burgmann, a campus professor of earth and planetary science who contributed to the research, said
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