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Earthquake science

Earth sciences professors set up the first string of seismographic stations in the Western hemisphere to track earthquake data.

The ten stations in the “California System,” which include sites at Chabot Observatory and Mills College in Oakland, use copies of the Ewing Duplex Pendulum seismograph constructed in San Francisco.

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