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Sampling The San Andreas

Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery

Engineers had to go deep to get these samples - what will they reveal ?

FOR THE FIRST TIME, scientists have unfettered access to complex soil, rock, and fluid samples from deep inside California's San Andreas Fault . Analyses of these materials should help these investigators better understand the underground molecular events associated with earthquakes.

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bill (73)

Senior board member | 2007-10-24 22:02:14

so we have these samples and we will study them for the next "x" number of years - then what ?? - where do we go from there - can we do anything positive - like predict the next earthquake ? I'm guessing that the forces of nature are so huge that we couldn't exert any influence so as to prevent one - maybe drop a nuke in to change a few things around !!

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Thursday 25 October, 2007 03:09 AM

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