MORE ON: seismic safety

As Californians closely watch the catastrophe at Japan's nuclear plants, many engineers are also studying the failure of a dam in Japan’s northeast Fukushima prefecture. The extent of the damage is still unknown. "One dam failure is too many," said Nicholas Sitar, a professor... + read more

Although they are nearly 10,000 miles apart, the magnitude 8.8 Chilean quake of 2010 triggered smaller microquakes here in California. Just hours after the megaquake shook Chile, toppling buildings and generating tsunamis, dozens of small quakes were recorded throughout the San Joaquin Valley... + read more

State authorities and hospital officials have discovered serious structural weaknesses at more than a dozen hospital buildings, but they have taken few steps to notify the public about the facilities or require a detailed inventory of hundreds of other potentially dangerous sites. + read more

This map shows the location of hospitals with buildings that have a 10 to 32 percent chance of collapsing in an earthquake. Click on the links below to see more information about the 14 buildings located at these hospitals. + read more

Six seismic-safety-related construction projects in the UC and CSU systems have won funding approval from budget committees in both the Assembly and the Senate. If they're included in the final budget, the state would issue $341 million in new lease revenue bonds and $3 million in general... + read more

Explore this interactive map to see which buildings at UC Berkeley have been deemed seismically hazardous.  + read more

Reporter Erica Perez shares how journalists can cover seismic safety in public universities + read more