Most seismically unsafe building in Cal State system faces Saturday blast.
Warren Hall – declared the most seismically unsafe building in the California State University system – is scheduled to be imploded at 9 a.m. Saturday.
The university considered retrofitting the 13-story building, but found it was less expensive to tear it down and replace it with a new, more energy efficient administration building on the other side of campus.
There to watch, along with CSUEB President Leroy Morishita and other dignitaries, will be Kim Huggett, a former Cal State staff member who worked in the building for 12 years.
Scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey plan to use the implosion to study the fault, via 600 seismographs that have been placed around a radius around the demolition site. They want to find out how the force of the explosion moves through the earth around the fault.
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