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Brief partial power outage; power fully restored

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CAutility failureemergency notificationhigh confidence

San Diego State University posted that Facilities Services was aware of a brief partial power outage that hit several San Diego campus buildings and that power was already fully restored. Imperial Valley was not affected.

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Institution
San Diego State University
Public R2 · CA
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Documented Timeline

Alert Sequence

1 message in sequence · 1 verified verbatim

Confirmed wording is transcribed character-for-character from a primary source. Use Verify this quote under each message to open that source in a new tab and compare the text yourself.

INITIAL ALERTEmail
Verified verbatim272 chars
SDSU Facilities Services is aware of a partial power outage that briefly impacted several buildings on campus, but power is now fully restored. Facilities Services is still looking into the cause of the outage. The partial power outage did not impact SDSU Imperial Valley.
Dual independent fetches 2026-08-17. sha256 38de2fa2d88c5b130c39f48c5bfe03c9c8e03a96dd6fea6c8432987ca92608d9.
Thread checked N/A (official HTML archive).
Combined outage-and-restore product; no earlier initial on the archive page.
Distinct incident from 2024-10-26-san-diego-state-university-water-outage and 2025-10-15-san-diego-state-university-brawley-power-outage: different date, utility, and campus.
Message elements

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.

SDSU Facilities Services is aware of a partial power outage that briefly impacted several buildings on campus, but power is now fully restored. Facilities Services is still looking into the cause of the outage. The partial power outage did not impact SDSU Imperial Valley.

  • Sourcepresent25/25

    Final assessment

    All 25 passes treat SDSU 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.

    See all 25 individual reads
    1. present: Opens with SDSU Facilities Services, which names the issuing unit.
    2. present: SDSU Facilities Services identifies the responding authority.
    3. present: Source is present because SDSU Facilities Services is named.
    4. present: A university unit signature sits at the start of the notice.
    5. present: SDSU Facilities Services is a sender tag.
    6. present: The message names SDSU Facilities Services as the source.
    7. present: A named campus department is the source cue.
    8. present: Readers can see SDSU Facilities Services is talking.
    9. present: The department name is printed in the first clause.
    10. present: Source is satisfied by SDSU Facilities Services.
    11. present: The first tokens name SDSU Facilities Services.
    12. present: Facilities Services is the named authority.
    13. present: Issuing authority is SDSU Facilities Services.
    14. present: The text does not hide the sender; it leads with SDSU Facilities Services.
    15. present: A named university department is the source.
    16. present: Source present: SDSU Facilities Services.
    17. present: The university unit name appears in the first clause.
    18. present: Sender identity is SDSU Facilities Services.
    19. present: The product names SDSU as the institution via Facilities Services.
    20. present: Opening department name is enough to mark who is talking.
    21. present: The alert carries a campus unit name rather than an unsigned body.
    22. present: Source is the SDSU Facilities Services tag.
    23. present: Named sender is present in SDSU Facilities Services.
    24. present: The notice identifies SDSU Facilities Services as the speaker.
    25. present: A branded campus unit supplies the source element.
  • Hazardpresent25/25

    Final assessment

    Every pass marks the 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.

    See all 25 individual reads
    1. present: It names a partial power outage, a specific utility hazard.
    2. present: Hazard is a brief partial power outage.
    3. present: A partial power outage is the threat.
    4. present: The text is not a generic emergency; it names a power outage.
    5. present: A power outage is the hazard.
    6. present: Hazard present because a power outage is named.
    7. present: The threat is a partial power outage.
    8. present: Readers are told there was a power outage.
    9. present: Specific hazard wording is power outage.
    10. present: It is a utility-failure hazard.
    11. present: The notice names a power outage.
    12. present: Hazard is the stated outage.
    13. present: A named outage is the threat language.
    14. present: The notice specifies a partial power outage.
    15. present: A partial power outage that briefly impacted several buildings is the hazard statement.
    16. present: The product tells you what happened: a power outage.
    17. present: A concrete utility failure is named.
    18. present: Hazard is present in the power outage wording.
    19. present: The alert identifies a power outage.
    20. present: A power outage is a specific hazard.
    21. present: The body names the outage.
    22. present: Threat content is the outage, stated directly.
    23. present: The notice says a partial power outage, which is the hazard.
    24. present: A defined utility hazard is given.
    25. present: Hazard satisfied by the power outage clause.
  • Locationpresent25/25

    Final assessment

    several buildings on campus is treated as a 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.

    See all 25 individual reads
    1. present: several buildings on campus and SDSU Imperial Valley are named places.
    2. present: Location is several buildings on campus.
    3. present: The San Diego campus is implied by several buildings on campus.
    4. present: on campus locates the outage.
    5. present: Location present: on campus.
    6. present: Readers are told where: campus buildings, not Imperial Valley.
    7. present: Named campus is the location.
    8. present: The site is several buildings on campus.
    9. present: Place is explicit in on campus.
    10. present: Location is campus, not generic elsewhere.
    11. present: The bulletin locates the outage on campus.
    12. present: on campus satisfies location.
    13. present: campus is a geographic cue.
    14. present: The scene is identified as campus buildings.
    15. present: Location is named campus.
    16. present: Imperial Valley is named as not impacted.
    17. present: Place is on campus.
    18. present: The first sentence names campus.
    19. present: Campus buildings are named.
    20. present: Location present via on campus.
    21. present: The campus word is enough for location.
    22. present: on campus appears in the first sentence.
    23. present: Named campus is the location element.
    24. present: The place word is campus.
    25. present: Location is satisfied by on campus.
  • Guidanceabsent0/25

    Final assessment

    The product is a restore status report with no protective instruction.

    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.

    See all 25 individual reads
    1. absent: The notice does not tell people to evacuate, shelter, or avoid.
    2. absent: No instruction such as stay away appears.
    3. absent: Guidance is absent from the product.
    4. absent: Recipients are not told what to do.
    5. absent: No protective action is given.
    6. absent: The product does not order a shelter or evacuation.
    7. absent: I find no do-this instruction.
    8. absent: Avoid, shelter, and leave are all missing.
    9. absent: Guidance fails because no action is directed at the audience.
    10. absent: The alert describes a restored outage without telling people how to act.
    11. absent: A restore notice is not guidance.
    12. absent: Guidance is not satisfied by a status report.
    13. absent: Looking into the cause is responder action, not guidance.
    14. absent: The notice does not say stay out or reenter.
    15. absent: I code guidance absent.
    16. absent: There is no required action language.
    17. absent: The audience is not instructed.
    18. absent: No protective verb is aimed at the reader.
    19. absent: Status-only wording is not guidance.
    20. absent: The alert is descriptive, not directive.
    21. absent: No call to action is present.
    22. absent: Guidance missing from the product.
    23. absent: The text does not tell people to take a protective step.
    24. absent: I do not treat a restore notice as an instruction.
    25. absent: Power is now fully restored is status, not guidance.
  • Timepresent25/25

    Final assessment

    now fully restored is treated as a recency cue.

    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.

    See all 25 individual reads
    1. present: now fully restored is a recency cue.
    2. present: now marks the restore as current.
    3. present: A time cue is now.
    4. present: Time present via now.
    5. present: The word now is a when marker.
    6. present: Recency is now fully restored.
    7. present: Time is the now clause.
    8. present: The bulletin says power is now fully restored.
    9. present: now is a time element.
    10. present: The when is now.
    11. present: A present-tense now is the time mark.
    12. present: Clock is in the archive stamp; now remains in the body.
    13. present: Time is the now phrase.
    14. present: The narrative includes now as recency.
    15. present: now fully restored is time.
    16. present: The when is a present-tense restore.
    17. present: A recency adverb is the time element.
    18. present: Time satisfied by now.
    19. present: The restore is described as now.
    20. present: now is explicit recency.
    21. present: The bulletin timestamps the restore as now.
    22. present: No clock in the body, but now is enough for time.
    23. present: The now clause is a time mark.
    24. present: Time is not missing if now counts.
    25. present: now fully restored 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.

    See all 25 individual reads
    1. absent: No injury language is used.
    2. absent: The text does not say anyone was harmed.
    3. absent: Impact as harm to people is absent.
    4. absent: No deadly wording appears.
    5. absent: A brief outage already restored is not a stated injury.
    6. absent: I do not infer injury the notice does not speak.
    7. absent: No one is described as hurt.
    8. absent: Impact fails because no personal-harm outcome is written.
    9. absent: Severity of harm is not claimed.
    10. absent: The bulletin is a restore status, not an impact statement.
    11. absent: Nothing says people are in danger.
    12. absent: Impact is not satisfied by naming an outage alone.
    13. absent: No injury count is given.
    14. absent: I code impact absent.
    15. absent: The text stops at a restored outage.
    16. absent: No life-threatening language is present.
    17. absent: A power outage is a service state, not impact under the rubric.
    18. absent: The alert does not say the situation is dangerous.
    19. absent: No impact verb such as threaten appears.
    20. absent: A restore notice is not impact unless harm is stated.
    21. present: Briefly impacted several buildings is a stated functional impact.
    22. present: I read a multi-building outage as impact.
    23. present: Impacted several buildings is impact language.
    24. present: A partial power outage is a stated disruption.
    25. present: Building impacts are a consequence.

Coded by SuperGrok Heavy 4.5

Systematic AI judgments with visible reasoning, not human-validated codings.

About this analysis
Context

Background

SDSU Urgent archive for a Dec 18 2024 brief partial power outage already restored at posting.
Analysis

Key Findings

Single combined restore notice after a brief multi-building outage.
Outcome
Power fully restored. Cause still under review at the time of the notice.
Provenance

Sources

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Campus Alert Archive. "San Diego State University: Brief partial power outage; power fully restored." Incident of December 18, 2024. Added August 2026. https://campusalertarchive.com/case/san-diego-state-university-brief-partial-power-outage-2024-12-18/

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Added August 2026Updated August 2026Via ingestion