Posted on 12/15/2006 5:27:29 PM PST by blam
Source: University of Kentucky
Date: December 14, 2006
Researchers Complete Seismic Borehole In Kentucky
Drilling has been completed on the deepest borehole for seismic instruments in the eastern U.S. The four-inch diameter hole for the Central U.S. Seismic Observatory (CUSSO), located at Sassafras Ridge in Fulton County, Kentucky, reached a depth of 1,948 feet, where bedrock was encountered.
The location is near the most active part of the New Madrid Seismic Zone, the source of at least three major earthquakes in the winter of 1811-12, before the region was heavily populated and developed. This location will allow instruments in the seismic hole to gather the maximum amount of data from the region's earthquakes for thorough evaluation of their effects on bedrock and soil and the resulting ground motions.
"Now that the well has been completed, our focus will be on getting instruments installed and collecting data vital to the region," says Jim Cobb, director of the Kentucky Geological Survey (KGS) and state geologist
The partners in the project, including the University of Kentucky, KGS, and several federal agencies, will now determine the type and number of instruments to place in the shaft and at what depths to place them.
Five partners involved in the project committed nearly $300,000 to the drilling project. Much of the funding came from the U.S. Department of Energy through the Kentucky Research Consortium for Energy and Environment. The Department of Energy has an interest in the region's earthquakes due to uranium enrichment operations at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant.
Edward W. Woolery of UK's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Zhenming Wang of KGS led the effort to plan and secure funding for the project. The next step in the process of completing the project will involve a workshop sponsored by the partners to gather input about the instruments to be placed in the observatory. The partners will apply to agencies such as the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and other sources of funding for the purchase and installation of the instruments.
When instrumentation is completed, the observatory will be added to the Kentucky Seismic and Strong-motion Network, a series of monitoring stations operated by KGS and the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
It will add new data on the origin, location, magnitude, and depth of earthquakes in this region to the information currently gathered by the network's 26 instruments.
Data collected will help geologists and engineers better define the earthquake hazard in the region. Knowing the hazard has implications for economic development in the region as well as specific applications for ongoing activities at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant.
It's about that 20 seconds.
Did you think earthquakes are measley little things or something?
Instead, he peddled the pap in the MSM piece to the effect these guys had no plan.
We don't need to go to FR to hear stupidity from the MSM.
What he should have added was what the scientists had planned to do and how that plan would procede (if he's a great borehole scientist as he claimed).
Right now he's just another oil guy upset over what he sees as a dry hole! World's full of 'em.
Shoot. . it looks like Madrid has Tennessee about ready to get cut out on each side (west and east) and sunk in the big old hidey hole in the globe. I'm right in the middle of it.
Not sure, I was trying to find out more on the Reelfoot Rift (being in Nashville, I'm close enough that damage would occur here - the "red" zone), but I can't seem to find any definitive depth info.
hmm, that's a bit deeper than the bedrock on your place, isn't it? :-)
Average depth of the earth's crust is about 30 miles.
*snrk*
You've refused to answer my question about whether Science Daily is the MSM, or provide me a link to the source that shows where these folks using your tax money have a clue.
But you continue to trash me.
I don't know what your problem is, but at least argue with some facts.
Just another boring thread?
Is there a old Madrid Seismic Zone?
Duh, I have lived my entire life in California. Yeah, and I know that basically 20 seconds gives you about enough times to get down and pray, if you are so inclined.
Millions of dollars spent does not guarantee safety. Even new safety requirements can't guarantee safety.
In the end, folks, we are all gonna die! Each and every one of us.
How about: When everyone is out to get you, paranoid is just good thinking?
All I've done is respond to your challenge ~ it's pretty obvious that the scientists have had a "plan" since long before the drill went in the ground.
Whether or not that UK periodical is MSM or not, you are the fellow who planted the seeds of doubt about the accuracy of the story. The rest of us were quite willing to play along with you on that, but when you turned around and challenged us with your credentials, it was time to throw up your basic flame thrower defense.
Let me put it this way, I now doubt the utility of your initial comment/question. It is, in fact, contrary to what I've read in all the periodicals I named.
Shake it, baby, shake it...
I've heard you can't take it with you, so I'm not goin'...
It's the same in the Midwest except they live in many more buildings not constructed to the CA earthquake mitigation standards.
Virtually no one gets killed by an earthquake out in the open. They do get killed by falling roofs.
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