Friday, August 28, 2026

Question: Memorial Stadium at the University of California, Berkeley, home of the Cal Bears, was built directly astride which active earthquake fault?

Answer: The Hayward Fault. When Memorial Stadium opened in 1923, it straddled the fault, whose slow creep cracked the concrete and bent columns over the decades. A major retrofit finished in 2012 rebuilt sections of the stadium so they can shift with the ground during a quake.