Campus Alert Archive

Institution

University of California, Berkeley

UC BerkeleyCAPublic R1UC Berkeley Safety AppRave~45,000 students

Cases: 14
Alerts: 29
Verbatim: 21%
Span: 1969–2025

Official alert policy

How UC Berkeley says it will alert — when and how WarnMe activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.

Case log

Every documented incident

14 cases · 6 of 29 alert messages verbatim-confirmed

2025

earthquake: 2025-09-222:56 AM Magnitude 4.3: The Hayward Fault Quake With Its Epicenter Right Under UC Berkeleyemergency notification

2024

2022

aggravated assault: 2022-09-19Rocks at Durant and Ellsworth: WarnMe Calls It Anti-Asian Hate, Six and a Half Hours After the Attacktimely warningverbatim

2017

civil unrest: 2017-02-01Shelter in Place: $600,000 in Damage and a Nationwide Free-Speech Debate as Black Bloc Rioters Cancel Milo at Berkeleyemergency notification6 injuredverbatim

2016

civil unrest: 2016-07-14One Cal Student Killed, Three Injured in Nice Bastille Day Truck Attack During Study Abroad Programadvisory1 killed · 3 injured

2013

infrastructure failure: 2013-09-30Underground Electrical Vault Detonates Two Stories High by California Hall, Copper-Theft Chain Reaction Empties UC Berkeleyemergency notification4 injured

1990

1985

suspicious package: 1985-05-15The Bomb in the Computer Room That Cost a Grad Student His Fingersemergency notification1 injured

1969

civil unrest: 1969-05-15Bloody Thursday: Police Shoot into Berkeley Crowd Over People's Park, One Killed, One Blindedemergency notification1 killed · 128 injured

By incident type

What UC Berkeley has alerted about

Civil Unrest · 4 Active Shooter · 3 aggravated assault · 1 Fire · 1 Infrastructure · 1 Property Crime · 1 Sex Offense · 1 suspicious package · 1 Weather · 1

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