Could this Seismic Mapping that is being done in Wyoming, cause problems with an existing fault?.....
Seismic Mapping Project Proposed (2/16/04)
GREEN RIVER, WY - More seismic mapping - sending shock waves through the ground so equipment can create a picture of rock formations and possible oil and gas deposits - is planned for southwest Wyoming.
GeoTir Corporation is seeking permission from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to do seismic mapping to help find oil and gas reserves in the Salt Wells area about 40 miles south of Rock Springs.
The mapping would be done on about 4,520 acres of federal land, 160 acres of private land and 480 acres of state land, according to a BLM notice filed Feb. 4.
The company is proposing to drill holes and release shock waves with explosives. The holes would be 220 feet apart in lines 1,540 feet apart.
While the drilling equipment and explosives would be brought in by trucks, buggies or helicopter, monitoring equipment would be deployed by helicopter.
The project would occur over about 60 days this summer.
The BLM is accepting public comments on the proposal through March 8.
Comments can be mailed to John MacDonald, BLM Rock Springs Field Office, 280 Highway 191 North, Rock Springs, WY 82901.
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/02/16/build/wyoming/z-wyoming.inc
Howard Ranch 3D Mapping Proposed
http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2004/02/22/news/wyoming/50349f4fbe8476a487256e41007984e9.txt By JEFF GEARINO
Southwest Wyoming bureau
GREEN RIVER -- An independent Louisiana oil and gas company is seeking federal permission to conduct 3D seismic mapping operations in western Wyoming, according to Bureau of Land Management officials.
The project is one of several ongoing, or proposed, 3D geophysical mapping projects in gas-rich southwest Wyoming.
Stone Energy, LLC filed a notice of intent with the BLM seeking permission to conduct the Howard Ranch 3D geophysical project, BLM officials said in a scoping notice.
The project area covers approximately 70 square miles of public, state and private lands located generally north and east of the tiny hamlet of Bonneville. Bonneville lies about three miles north of Shoshoni in Fremont County.....
Teton Fault Quake Monitors Installed
Associated Press
JACKSON, Wyo. - A network of sensors being installed to monitor earthquakes along the Teton Fault in northwest Wyoming should be completed by the end of August, seismologist Harley Benz said.
The seismic network of seven to eight monitors will help emergency response teams prepare for earthquakes, said Benz, who works for the U.S. Geological Survey at the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo. The agency that is installing the network of sensors in Jackson Hole.
The new sensors will provide more data about earthquakes than a network of older monitors recently removed by the Bureau of Reclamation. Teton County fought the BLM over removing the monitors but lost......
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/03/04/build/wyoming/45-quakemonitors.inc