Upgrading the Seismic Station on Farallon Islands

UC Berkeley Seismology Lab engineers recently upgraded the remote and critical Farallon Islands seismic station, which monitors the San Andreas fault. The sensors on the rocky outpost west of San Andreas fault provide critical data on state's most dangerous fault. Watch this video to learn more.

“This was one of the first instruments put here when Berkeley started to build the Berkeley Digital Seismic Network in the 1990s,” said seismology lab director Richard Allen as he accompanied his crew on a survey of the outdated station. “It’s been upgraded a couple of times since, but this is our opportunity to really turn this into a state-of-the-art site where we have much lower noise levels and we can really detect all earthquakes that are occurring in the region.”