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Seismic concerns have come to the front of many campus community members’ minds in recent months, leaving them worried about the potential effects of an earthquake after six campus buildings were found to have a severe implied risk to life.
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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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