UC Berkeley Professor Builds $100 Earthquake Early Warning System
Could low-cost quake detectors become as common as smoke detectors in California homes? A professor at UC Berkeley said he built an alarm himself, for about $100.
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Could low-cost quake detectors become as common as smoke detectors in California homes? A professor at UC Berkeley said he built an alarm himself, for about $100.
A earthquake registering a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 struck central Indonesia Wednesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey's automated seismograph alert network.
Seismologists at the Lawrence Livermore Lab will use their supercomputers to simulate detailed ground motion from last month's earthquake in Napa.
Napa Valley's wine industry suffered $80.3 million in damage from the 6.0-magnitude earthquake last month, according to a report being presented today to the Napa County Board of Supervisors.
An earthquake registering a preliminary magnitude of 3.9 struck southeast of Ridgemark Tuesday morning
On Monday afternoon, the city and county of Napa will open a one-stop shop at at First Street and Silverado Trail to help locals find relief.
A moderate earthquake struck the far Northeastern corner of California Sunday afternoon.
When the South Napa Quake shook this town two weeks ago, inspectors red-tagged a building downtown and shut down an entire block. That sudden loss of foot traffic has merchants wondering if the end is near.
Last month's earthquake in California's wine country has residents marveling at the sight and sound of water running in some local creeks again.
Scientists were at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park on Thursday, sharing some of the information they have gathered on the ground in studying last month's Napa earthquake.
As far as reports go, no one died during the Napa earthquake, but the Allendorf family says they lost someone dear to them: Donald the horse.
An earthquake registering a preliminary magnitude of 3.0 struck east of Ridgemark, near Hollister Thursday at 3:11 a.m. according to the U.S. Geological Survey's automated seismograph alert network.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 3.0-magnitude aftershock in American Canyon about seven miles south of Napa Thursday morning.
An earthquake registering a magnitude of 2.9 struck in southern San Mateo County Wednesday evening, according to the U.S. Geological Survey's automated seismograph alert network.
This is harvest season in the wine country and vintners are trying to help other winemakers, whose facilities might have been damaged by the August 24 earthquake.
Building inspectors on Tuesday continued their second round of evaluations of structures that were damaged in the magnitude-6.0 South Napa earthquake nine days ago.
A magnitude 3.7 earthquake shook Southern California Tuesday evening.
A 3.5-magnitude earthquake struck Monday morning near Gilroy, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
A high-tech earthquake laboratory in the Central Valley, that has been studying the San Andreas Fault, is in danger of shutting down as funding has dried up for the unique lab in Parkfield.
Scientists and politicians planned to meet at UC Berkeley next week for a summit on developing an early earthquake warning system.
A significant aftershock from last weekend's magnitude-6.0 earthquake has rattled the Napa Valley.
A earthquake registering a preliminary magnitude of 3.0 struck east of Gilroy, in Hollister on Friday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey's automated seismograph alert network.
A earthquake registering a magnitude of 3.5 struck near the town of Alturas in Modoc County Friday morning.
Every time there's a quake come the reminders about being prepared and the need to upgrade old buildings. But some owners are skipping the retrofitting altogether.
Many residents are replacing perishables that were lost when the power went out following the earthquake.
