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Northwest Progressive Institute (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Pity the poor commuters in the Bay Area this week. The Oakland Bay Bridge, which carries about a quarter million cars per day, is closed . An emergency repair put in place this past Labor Day weekend failed, dropping a couple of tons of steel down on the bridge deck. Thankfully, no one was seriously injured. The Oakland Bay Bridge is a perfect example of the need for reliable infrastructure funding....
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California High Speed Rail Blog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
At next week's CHSRA board meeting the board will vote on a staff recommendation to award the $9 million PR contract to Ogilvy , a leading public relations communications firm. It's not a surprising choice, as Ogilvy has extensive experience in California political communications. From the Capitol Weekly article on the topic: Ogilvy Managing Driector Christi Black said her frm received a letter from...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
State highway officials say high winds and traffic vibrations caused a patch on the cantilevered section of the San Francisco Bay Bridge to fail. That's scary. High winds and traffic vibrations are hardly abnormal conditions for the Bay Bridge. Three sections of the support system crashed onto the roadway of the bridge's eastern span, between Oakland and Yerba Buena Island, hitting three cars during...
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MATTER MAGAZINE (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
By Tina Casey San Diego Gas & Electric has embarked on a demonstration project to test the commercial viability of a new concentrated solar power system that uses shallow pools of water as a passive cooling system for high-efficiency solar cells. The unique proprietary technology was developed by Pyron Solar of Sorrento Valley, California. The new technology could be attractive in land-rich areas,...
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The Westerner (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Strict conservation, new dams and a peripheral canal are all on the table after six weeks of closed-door negotiations to solve the state's water crisis and restore the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta ecosystem. Leaders in the state Senate and Assembly are still discussing how to pay for the plan, which could cost $9.4 billion. The Legislature could vote on the plan as soon as the end of the week....
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
The last time you watched CNN or read The New York Times online, you might have been surprised to see reporting by ordinary people. From photos uploaded instantly of the earthquake in Indonesia to video of the tsunami in American Samoa to live-blogging from a student protest at the California State University at Fullerton, all of these reports represent a new kind of news reporting. What is citizen...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Concerro, Inc., the market leader in enterprise-wide hospital shift and emergency workforce management software, is pleased to announce the successful use of its CommandAware® hospital incident management system during the Great California ShakeOut – the largest earthquake drill in U.S. history - held October 15th to help improve disaster preparedness. More than...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Another way to save lives in the Pacific NorthwestSome time soon, a powerful earthquake will trigger a massive tsunami that will flood the Pacific Northwest, destroying homes and threatening the lives of tens of thousands of people, says Yumei Wang, a geotechnical engineer at the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries in Portland.The region's geology makes an earthquake-triggered tsunami...
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ChattahBox (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
(ChattahBox)—California’s San Francisco Bay Area experienced a devastating magnitude 7.1 earthquake 20 years ago, killing sixty-three people. Perhaps if an early warning system had been in place, providing a precious few seconds of warning, lives may have been saved. That’s the hope of a seismologist working with the University of California, Berkeley to implement an [...]
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Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Photo: Repair crews in Oakland, Calif., examine damage to the Cypress Structure during the 1989 San Francisco earthquake. Dave Bartruff / Corbis From Time Magazine: The San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics were just about to start Game 3 of the 1989 World Series on Oct. 17 when the shaking began. ABC play-by-play announcer Al Michaels managed to tell viewers, "We're having an earth—"...
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Fox News (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
When an earthquake collapsed two 50-foot sections of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge during the 1989 World Series, the nightmares of hundreds of thousands of commuters who cross the Depression-era span each day were brought to life.
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The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) | Schoolchildren dove under tables in Los Angeles and sirens sounded in San Francisco on Thursday as California practiced how to survive a major earthquake. "Drop, cover and hold on," dozens of fourth-graders chanted just before the announcement of a simulated earthquake sent them scurrying under tables at the California Science Center at 10:15 a.m. At the same moment, nearly...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
&$ &$Government officials attend a quake drill in Los Angeles, California, US, on October 15, 2009. Millions of people throughout California have signed up to take part in a statewide earthquake disaster drill billed as the largest such exercise in U.S. history. (Xinhuanet Photo)&$ &$&$ 【1】
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The Compass Rose (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
The lead front page story in The San Francisco Chronicle this morning is " S-curve crash shows why changes needed ". Reading this block type, you'd probably figure they were suggesting that the new S-curve structure on the East side of the Treasure Island splice of the two-part San Francisco Bay Bridge ought to be redesigned, and reconstructed, but you'd have been wrong. Caltrans ' "changes"...
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Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Los Angeles, CA – Millions of people throughout California have signed up to take part in a statewide earthquake disaster drill billed as the largest such exercise in U.S. history. Many schools and businesses on Thursday will practice “drop, cover and hold on” — the minimum requirement for participation. Some hospitals and fire departments will stage [...]
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