Professor Robert Bea (on left), head of the Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructures (RESIN) project, and Professor Ray Seed (on right), are among a number of UC researchers who are using their expertise to tackle the extraordinary challenges of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
The RESIN team is exploring what would happen to the Delta region in the wake of a large earthquake. They predict the damage from such a quake would reach beyond the well-being of the Delta's residents or its ecosystem. They predict that the force of the water flow from massive levee breaches would set off a chain reaction of failures in the adjoining infrastructure systems that would have ripple effects throughout the state.
See UC Berkeley news release 4.20.2010 Can California fix the Delta before Disaster Strikes?