Friday, December 09, 2005
Sometimes I Have Mean Thoughts
When I read this article
The Stanford-U.S. Geological Survey project is the first time geologists have dug deep below Earth's surface to within tens of yards (meters) of an active fault zone to study earthquakes, Stanford University geologist Mark Zoback said at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.The first thought that ran through my mind was that the portion of the fault they have done all this work on, meaning they invested all this money on, will not move for the next 200 years. That's a mean thought, but kind of funny, since they beat out some of my buddies in the SoCal office for the funding...
"We've never been inside the fault zone before," said William Ellsworth, a principal investigator on the project for the U.S. Geological Survey. "The goal has been to understand the basic mechanics of faults," he said.
