Science buildings lose utility power; later resolved
AI-generated · every claim is source-linkedSan Diego State University posted two Urgent updates after an unplanned partial power outage left Geology Mathematics Computer Sciences, North Life Sciences, and Bio Science Center without utility power. Backup generators covered two of the buildings. The outage was later reported resolved.
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Alert Sequence
2 messages in sequence · 2 verified verbatim
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How the first alert is built
To check this alert, SuperGrok Heavy 4.5 (an AI) read it in full 25 separate times, independently. Each read decided whether the message answers each of the six questions and gave a short reason. A final reviewer then weighed all 25 and wrote the plain-English verdict you see when you open a row. The score (for example 22/25) is how many reads agreed; the 25 individual reads are tucked underneath if you want to check them.
An unplanned, partial power outage was reported at SDSU on August 15 just after 8:43 a.m. Partial power has been restored, but the Geology Mathematics Computer Sciences, North Life Sciences and Bio Science Center buildings do not have utility power. North Life Sciences and BioScience Center currently have power via backup generators. Facilities Services team members are on site to assess. Faculty and staff are encouraged to report any ongoing issues online: sdsu.assetworks.cloud. Additional updates to come.
Sourcepresent25/25
Final assessment
All 25 passes treat SDSU and Facilities Services as source.
Who is sending the alert and who is responding. People act faster on a message from a clearly identifiable, credible sender, such as a named department, the police, or a branded alert system, than on an anonymous notice. A branded signature counts.
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- present: The notice names SDSU as the site and Facilities Services as the assessing unit.
- present: Facilities Services team members are on site names the authority.
- present: Source is present because SDSU and Facilities Services are identified.
- present: A university name sits in the first sentence.
- present: SDSU is a sender tag.
- present: The message names SDSU as the source.
- present: A named campus is the source cue.
- present: Readers can see SDSU is talking.
- present: The campus name is printed in the first clause.
- present: Source is satisfied by SDSU.
- present: The first tokens name SDSU.
- present: Facilities Services is the named assessing unit.
- present: Issuing authority is SDSU via Facilities Services.
- present: The text does not hide the sender; it names SDSU.
- present: A named university is the source.
- present: Source present: SDSU.
- present: The university name appears in the first clause.
- present: Sender identity is SDSU.
- present: The product names SDSU as the institution.
- present: Opening campus name is enough to mark who is talking.
- present: The alert carries a campus name rather than an unsigned body.
- present: Source is the SDSU tag.
- present: Named sender is present in SDSU.
- present: The notice identifies SDSU as the speaker.
- present: A branded campus name supplies the source element.
Hazardpresent25/25
Final assessment
Every pass marks the unplanned partial power outage as a specific hazard.
What the threat actually is. A complete warning names the specific danger, such as a shooter, a fire, a tornado, or a gas leak, rather than a vague emergency, because people decide what to do based on what they are facing.
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- present: It names an unplanned, partial power outage, a specific utility hazard.
- present: Hazard is a partial power outage.
- present: An unplanned partial power outage is the threat.
- present: The text is not a generic emergency; it names a power outage.
- present: A power outage is the hazard.
- present: Hazard present because a power outage is named.
- present: The threat is a partial power outage.
- present: Readers are told there is a power outage.
- present: Specific hazard wording is power outage.
- present: It is a utility-failure hazard.
- present: The notice names a power outage.
- present: Hazard is the stated outage.
- present: A named outage is the threat language.
- present: The notice specifies a partial power outage.
- present: Buildings without utility power is the hazard statement.
- present: The product tells you what is happening: a power outage.
- present: A concrete utility failure is named.
- present: Hazard is present in the power outage wording.
- present: The alert identifies a power outage.
- present: A power outage is a specific hazard.
- present: The body names the outage.
- present: Threat content is the outage, stated directly.
- present: The notice says a partial power outage, which is the hazard.
- present: A defined utility hazard is given.
- present: Hazard satisfied by the power outage clause.
Locationpresent25/25
Final assessment
Three named science buildings are the location.
Where the threat is. Saying whether danger is in a specific building, a part of campus, or area-wide lets people judge their own proximity and choose a safe direction. Without a where, a warning is hard to act on precisely.
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- present: Geology Mathematics Computer Sciences, North Life Sciences and Bio Science Center are named buildings.
- present: Location is three named science buildings.
- present: Specific buildings are given.
- present: Those three halls locate the outage.
- present: Location present: named science buildings.
- present: Readers are told where: GMCS, North Life Sciences, Bio Science Center.
- present: Named campus buildings are the location.
- present: The sites are three science buildings.
- present: Place is explicit in building names.
- present: Location is not generic campus; it is three halls.
- present: The bulletin locates the outage at named buildings.
- present: Building names satisfy location.
- present: GMCS is a geographic cue, and so are the life-science halls.
- present: The scene is identified as named buildings.
- present: Location is named facilities.
- present: Each listed building is a place cue.
- present: Place is the science complex.
- present: The first sentence names SDSU and then the buildings.
- present: Specific facilities are named.
- present: Location present via the building list.
- present: The hall names are enough for location.
- present: North Life Sciences appears in the first product.
- present: Named structures are the location element.
- present: The place words are three building names.
- present: Location is satisfied by the building list.
Guidancepresent25/25
Final assessment
Report any ongoing issues online is treated as guidance.
The protective action to take. A clear, specific instruction, such as shelter in place, evacuate, avoid the area, or run-hide-fight, drives faster and more correct protective behavior than describing the threat alone.
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- present: Faculty and staff are encouraged to report any ongoing issues is guidance.
- present: Report issues online is an instruction.
- present: Recipients are told to report problems to Facilities.
- present: Guidance is present in the report-issues clause.
- present: Encouraged to report is an action.
- present: A protective/operational action is given: report issues.
- present: The product tells people to report ongoing issues.
- present: Report any ongoing issues is an action for faculty and staff.
- present: Guidance present in report any ongoing issues.
- present: People are told what to do.
- present: The notice instructs reporting.
- present: An explicit report instruction is aimed at the audience.
- present: Readers get a report-issues path.
- present: Operational guidance is the report clause.
- present: The sentence tells faculty to report issues.
- present: Guidance is satisfied by the report clause.
- present: A clear action, report issues, is present.
- present: The notice does not only describe the outage; it says to report issues.
- present: Instructional content is report any ongoing issues.
- present: The audience is told to report problems.
- present: Guidance exists as the report line.
- present: Recipients are steered to the Facilities portal.
- present: The required action is named: report issues.
- present: A specific call-to-action is in the text.
- present: The message tells people to report ongoing issues online.
Timepresent25/25
Final assessment
August 15 just after 8:43 a.m. is a clear time element.
When the message applies. A timestamp, the word now or immediately, or a phrase like until further notice tells the reader whether the danger is current and how quickly to act.
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- present: August 15 just after 8:43 a.m. is a time cue.
- present: just after 8:43 a.m. marks when the outage was reported.
- present: A time cue is just after 8:43 a.m.
- present: Time present via August 15 just after 8:43 a.m.
- present: The phrase just after 8:43 a.m. is a when marker.
- present: Recency is just after 8:43 a.m.
- present: Time is the 8:43 a.m. clause.
- present: The bulletin says August 15 just after 8:43 a.m.
- present: August 15 is a time element.
- present: The when is just after 8:43 a.m.
- present: A dated morning clock is the time mark.
- present: Clock and date are both present.
- present: Time is the just after 8:43 a.m. phrase.
- present: The narrative includes August 15 as a date.
- present: just after 8:43 a.m. is time.
- present: The when is a same-day morning outage.
- present: A recency phrase is the time element.
- present: Time satisfied by August 15 just after 8:43 a.m.
- present: The outage is described as just after 8:43 a.m.
- present: 8:43 a.m. is explicit recency.
- present: The bulletin timestamps the event as August 15 just after 8:43 a.m.
- present: Date and clock are enough for time.
- present: The 8:43 a.m. clause is a time mark.
- present: Time is not missing; a date and clock are given.
- present: August 15 just after 8:43 a.m. is a clear when cue.
Impactabsent5/25
Final assessment
Most passes find no stated harm to people.
What the hazard could do to the people in its path. Beyond naming the threat, a complete warning conveys its potential consequences or severity, such as that a tornado can level buildings or that a leak could be explosive, so recipients grasp how much danger they are in. Research on warning message content finds that a concrete impact statement helps people personalize their risk and act sooner.
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- absent: No injury language is used.
- absent: The text does not say anyone was harmed.
- absent: Impact as harm to people is absent.
- absent: No deadly wording appears.
- absent: Without utility power is a service state.
- absent: I do not infer injury the notice does not speak.
- absent: No one is described as hurt.
- absent: Impact fails because no personal-harm outcome is written.
- absent: Severity of harm is not claimed.
- absent: The bulletin is a utility status, not an impact statement.
- absent: Nothing says people are in danger.
- absent: Impact is not satisfied by naming an outage alone.
- absent: No injury count is given.
- absent: I code impact absent.
- absent: The text stops at outage and generator coverage.
- absent: No life-threatening language is present.
- absent: A power outage is a service state, not impact under the rubric.
- absent: The alert does not say the situation is dangerous.
- absent: No impact verb such as threaten appears.
- absent: An outage notice is not impact unless harm is stated.
- present: Buildings do not have utility power is a stated functional impact.
- present: I read a three-building outage as impact.
- present: Without utility power is a consequence.
- present: An unplanned outage is a stated disruption.
- present: Backup generators imply a serious power loss.
Coded by SuperGrok Heavy 4.5
Systematic AI judgments with visible reasoning, not human-validated codings.
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Campus Alert Archive. "San Diego State University: Science buildings lose utility power; later resolved." Incident of August 15, 2024. Added August 2026. https://campusalertarchive.com/case/san-diego-state-university-science-buildings-power-outage-2024-08-15/
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