http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Wed, 22 May 2013 23:00:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/27/bart-teams-with-uc-berkeley-to-adopt-earthquake-early-warning-system/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/27/bart-teams-with-uc-berkeley-to-adopt-earthquake-early-warning-system/#comments Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:05:44 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33080 The Berkeley Seismological Laboratory has hooked BART into the Northern California seismic network, in an earthquake early-warning system that automatically slows trains in the event of a quake. For quakes beyond the Bay Area, BART gets advance warning, so that its trains can slow to a crawl before the ground begins to shake.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/27/bart-teams-with-uc-berkeley-to-adopt-earthquake-early-warning-system/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/26/large-2012-earthquake-triggered-temblors-worldwide-for-nearly-a-week/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/26/large-2012-earthquake-triggered-temblors-worldwide-for-nearly-a-week/#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:06:25 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32783 This year’s largest earthquake, a magnitude 8.6 temblor on April 11 centered in the East Indian Ocean off Sumatra, did little damage, but it triggered quakes around the world for at least a week, according to a new analysis by UC Berkeley and USGS seismologists. Some large quakes apparently can prime other, very distant faults to break later, says study co-author Roland Burgmann.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/26/large-2012-earthquake-triggered-temblors-worldwide-for-nearly-a-week/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/11/29/moore-foundation-awards-6-million-for-earthquake-early-warning-research/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/11/29/moore-foundation-awards-6-million-for-earthquake-early-warning-research/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:31:52 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=21245 UC Berkeley, Caltech and the University of Washington will each receive $2 million from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to conduct research on an earthquake early warning system that seismologists hope to create along the Pacific Coast.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/11/29/moore-foundation-awards-6-million-for-earthquake-early-warning-research/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/27/third-modest-quake-within-week-sends-message-be-prepared/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/27/third-modest-quake-within-week-sends-message-be-prepared/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:28:31 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=19132 A 3.6 magnitude earthquake this morning (Thursday, Oct. 27) – the third small quake in a week on the Hayward Fault near UC Berkeley – sent a message to all East Bay residents: Be prepared!]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/27/third-modest-quake-within-week-sends-message-be-prepared/feed/ 0 http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/july/earthquake-sensor-project-060711.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/july/earthquake-sensor-project-060711.html#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 23:48:48 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=13856 The U.S. Geological Survey and five universities, including UC Berkeley and Stanford, are enlisting the help of "citizen seismologists" to host earthquake sensors in their homes as part of a new Quake Catcher Network. The first 200 to sign up will have sensors installed starting July 9.]]> http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/july/earthquake-sensor-project-060711.html/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/05/seismologists-urge-creation-of-earthquake-early-warning-system-along-pacific-coast/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/05/seismologists-urge-creation-of-earthquake-early-warning-system-along-pacific-coast/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 23:04:37 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=8728 Following a closed-door summit at UC Berkeley, leading West Coast seismologists recommended in a news conference today (Tuesday, April 5) the establishment of an earthquake early warning system in California, Oregon and Washington.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/05/seismologists-urge-creation-of-earthquake-early-warning-system-along-pacific-coast/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/12/09/tremorscope/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/12/09/tremorscope/#comments Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:09:23 +0000 Robert Sanders http://dev-newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=2319 The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has donated $1.2 million to the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory to install a small network of earthquake sensors around the San Andreas Fault at Cholame to monitor faint tremors that have been discovered in the area. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/12/09/tremorscope/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/09/23/post_perovskite/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/09/23/post_perovskite/#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:31:56 +0000 Robert Sanders http://dev-newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=1439 UC Berkeley and Yale University scientists have recreated the tremendous pressures and high temperatures deep in the Earth to resolve a long-standing puzzle: why some seismic waves travel faster than others through the boundary between the solid mantle and fluid outer core. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/09/23/post_perovskite/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/08/25/north_american_craton_layer_cake/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/08/25/north_american_craton_layer_cake/#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:24:59 +0000 Robert Sanders http://dev-newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=1673 The North American continent is not one thick, rigid slab, but a layer cake of ancient, 3 billion-year-old rock on top of much newer material probably less than 1 billion years old, according to a new study by UC Berkeley seismologists. The new findings by Barbara Romanowicz and Huaiyu Yuan also indicate that the continent grew by addition of rock from subducting ocean floor, not by mantle plume upwelling from below. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/08/25/north_american_craton_layer_cake/feed/ 0