{
  "id": "2022-08-24-san-diego-state-university-murray-substation-power-outage",
  "slug": "san-diego-state-university-murray-substation-power-outage-2022-08-24",
  "institution": {
    "name": "San Diego State University",
    "shortName": "SDSU",
    "state": "CA",
    "type": "public-r2",
    "alertSystemName": "SDSU Alert",
    "enrollment": 37000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2022-08-24",
    "type": "utility-failure",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "resolved",
    "headline": "Bird contact at Murray substation cuts campus power",
    "headlinePublic": "Bird contact at Murray substation cuts campus power",
    "summary": "San Diego State University [posted four Urgent updates](https://urgent.sdsu.edu/archives/2022-08-24-unplanned-power-outage) after an unplanned power outage hit parts of campus and other communities. SDG&E later said a bird contact at the Murray substation caused it and that power was restored at 10:10 a.m.",
    "outcome": "Power restored at 10:10 a.m. Cause: bird contact at the Murray substation. Typo cause out of outage preserved."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestamp": "2022-08-24T09:02:00-07:00",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "SDSU Alert: SDSU is aware of an unplanned power outage impacting parts of campus. Assessment is active to restore power. Updates will be shared.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://urgent.sdsu.edu/archives/2022-08-24-unplanned-power-outage",
      "sourceDescription": "SDSU Urgent archive — Aug 24 2022 unplanned outage 9:02 a.m.",
      "annotations": [
        "Dual independent fetches 2026-08-17. sha256 a63459b74b98aa03fd86c917670fe7d5a88807ff4e652ff2785cd8d267df0fe0.",
        "Thread checked N/A (official HTML archive).",
        "Not a test: live unplanned campus outage.",
        "Distinct incident from 2022-10-04-san-diego-state-university-west-side-partial-power-outage: different date and cause."
      ],
      "characterCount": 144
    },
    {
      "sequence": 2,
      "type": "update",
      "timestamp": "2022-08-24T09:28:00-07:00",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "Update: SDG&E has confirmed that the outage is impacting multiple communities. The cause is not yet known.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://urgent.sdsu.edu/archives/2022-08-24-unplanned-power-outage",
      "sourceDescription": "SDSU Urgent archive — Aug 24 2022 unplanned outage 9:28 a.m.",
      "annotations": [
        "Same dual fetch."
      ],
      "characterCount": 106
    },
    {
      "sequence": 3,
      "type": "update",
      "timestamp": "2022-08-24T09:33:00-07:00",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "SDG&E is assessing the outage to determine the cause out of outage, which is impacting multiple communities, including parts of SDSU.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://urgent.sdsu.edu/archives/2022-08-24-unplanned-power-outage",
      "sourceDescription": "SDSU Urgent archive — Aug 24 2022 unplanned outage 9:33 a.m.",
      "annotations": [
        "Same dual fetch. Typo cause out of outage preserved."
      ],
      "characterCount": 133
    },
    {
      "sequence": 4,
      "type": "all-clear",
      "timestamp": "2022-08-24T10:55:00-07:00",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "SDG&E confirmed power was restored at 10:10 a.m. The cause was a bird contact at the Murray substation.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://urgent.sdsu.edu/archives/2022-08-24-unplanned-power-outage",
      "sourceDescription": "SDSU Urgent archive — Aug 24 2022 unplanned outage 10:55 a.m.",
      "annotations": [
        "Same dual fetch. Restore time 10:10 a.m.; bird contact at Murray substation."
      ],
      "characterCount": 103
    }
  ],
  "context": "SDSU Urgent archive for an August 24 2022 unplanned outage later attributed to bird contact at the Murray substation.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Four official products from SDSU Alert through restore; bird contact named as the cause."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "SDSU Urgent archive — Unplanned Power Outage",
      "url": "https://urgent.sdsu.edu/archives/2022-08-24-unplanned-power-outage",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-08-17",
      "archiveUrl": null,
      "archiveNotes": "SPN 523/500 earlier this run; not retried this file"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "public-r2",
    "california",
    "sdsu",
    "power-outage"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-08-17",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-08-17",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}