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AlertMap frame for the 20 July 2007 Mw 4.2 Oakland earthquake, at 4 seconds after event origin. Read more ....

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April 21 2009

View the webcast of the 2009 Lawson Lecture - Building Resilient Communities: Fresh Challenges for Earthquake Professionals

Feb 27 2009

Since Feb. 27, the BSL's and MBARI's ocean bottom seismometer station, MOBB, is sending data to our datacenter in realtime. This is the culmination of a long effort on the part of both institutions. In the week before it was connected to the ocean bottom MARS science node, a 3 km long power and data cable was laid out to the MOBB site. The seismogram below shows the recording from M6.5 earthquake on Mar. 6, 2009 North of Svalbard. The upper three traces are from MOBB, the bottom three from the closest BDSN station, SAO. The data were filtered between 0.005 and 0.1 Hz. See the MOBB overview page and our blog for more on the MOBB insallation.

Dec 8 2008

The latest BSL Annual Report, now online.

October 17 2008

Discovery Finds New Trigger For San Andreas Fault (video)
New research by paleoseismologist Chris Goldfinger at OSU points to large quakes in Cascadia triggering quakes on the San Andreas Fault. Rupturing from the north, such a quake could cause shaking stronger than that of the 1906 quake. BSL seismologist Peggy Hellweg explains.

October 15 2008

Reconnaissance Report (video) on the Sichuan Earthquake (May 12, 2008)

September 23 2008

The "Where is California Quaking?" exhibit, formarly known as the REDI exhibit, is back up and running at The Lawrence Hall of Science

August 6 2008

BSL's BK network installation commended in recent Seismological Research Letters article
"Our analysis indicates that the stations of the Berkeley network are unusually well oriented; for only two of the 20 stations do we obtain correction angles larger than 3 degrees." - Ekstrom, G. and R. Busby, Measurements of Seismometer Orientation at USArray Transportable Array and Backbone Stations, Seism. Res. Lett.,79, DOI:10.1785/gssrl.79.4.554

July 11 2008

BSL and LLNL research on Crandall Mine Collapse to appear in Science Brevia (LLNL press release)
(Original UC Berkeley press release)

May 20 2008

Source Characterization of the August 6, 2007 Crandall Canyon Mine Seismic Event in Central Utah (PDF)

May 2008

From the USGS: Forecasting Earthquakes - What Can We Expect in the Next 30 Years? (PDF)

April 17 2008

View the webcast of the 2008 Lawson Lecture - A tectonic time bomb in our backyard: earthquake potential of the Hayward fault

Feb 24 2008

Berkeley Seismo Lab Moment Tensor and Finite Fault Results for the February 21 Mw 6.0 near Wells, NV.

Jan 8 2008

The latest BSL Annual Report, now online.

Dec 1 2007

The BSL responds to the Alum Rock earthquake on Oct. 30, 2007.

Spring 2006

See the earthquake preparedness video for students on the UC Berkeley campus. This video was put together by students in a Freshman Seminar given by Prof. Richard Allen and Barbara Romanowicz.

May 3 2005

Director Barbara Romanowicz elected to the National Academy of Sciences

May 2005

Professor Roland Burgmann has been awarded the 2005 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel prize of the Alexander Humboldt Foundation for his outstanding contributions to research and scholarship. Through his research work on earthquakes and crustal motions with the help of satellite observations, Professor Burgmann belongs among the international leaders in state of the art research. Professor Roland Burgmann will spend several months in summer 2005 as guest of the Postdam Geophysical Research Institute in the framework of a research collaboration.

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