Wisconsin geologists go miles deep in quest to predict earthquakes | #Geology #GeologyPage To understand earthquakes, scientists have hatched an audacious plan - go straight to the source. That means drilling miles-deep into the earth, directly through faults where two plates of the earths crust come into contact. Geologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are doing just that, as part of two experiments located at dangerous faults in New Zealand and Japan - faults that could rupture at any moment, causing massive earthquakes. Read more : geologypage/2014/08/wisconsin-geologists-go-miles-deep-in.html Geology geologypage
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:00:01 +0000
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