Jump to navigation
By 08/04/2021
A new seismic monitoring station in Nicasio received approval from the county last week, part of an effort by the United States Geological Survey to fill the gaps in its expanding earthquake early warning system. Once the station is built later this summer, West Marin residents will be alerted more quickly if a quake hits the area.
The station will be part of ShakeAlert, a warning system developed by U.S.G.S. and a coalition of institutions and agencies. The system, which came online in 2019 and is still being built out, can deliver smartphone alerts to those nearby a few seconds before they feel the shaking from an earthquake.
Shoreline split over Tomales preschool plan ptreyeslight.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ptreyeslight.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Jump to navigation
By 01/20/2021
The youngest students of the Shoreline Unified School District are back in classrooms for the first time in 10 months, and that’s just one of many moving parts at West Marin’s largest school district this month. Employees are getting vaccinated, Covid-19 testing efficacy has been thrown into doubt and administrators are still hashing out plans for every scenario: What happens if a teacher falls ill? How will quarantined students receive instruction? When would a class revert to distance learning?
“Everyone is trying to come up with solutions to problems they’ve never encountered,” superintendent Bob Raines said. “It’s the nature of the strangeness of this time.”