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Sam Wormley
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Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:08 am Post subject:
Getting ready for the 'big one' |
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Getting ready for the 'big one,' researchers
make most detailed survey ever of San Andreas Fault
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-12/osu-grf120605.php
Images show never-before-seen fault lines -- plus cows, trees
Click here for a high resolution photograph.
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Researchers have completed the most meticulous survey
ever made of the San Andreas Fault, and they've found detailed features
that nobody could have seen before.
Michael Bevis, Ohio Eminent Scholar in geodynamics and professor of
civil and environmental engineering and geodetic science at Ohio State
University, unveiled the first images from the ambitious new survey
Wednesday at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.
His team will spend the next year processing the rest of the survey
data, which they gathered using ultra-high-resolution global
positioning system (GPS) technology and a radar-like system called
lidar.
See: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-12/osu-grf120605.php |
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Phil Wheeler
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Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:08 am Post subject:
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John R. Copeland wrote:
| Quote: | "Sam Wormley" <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in message news:98Olf.609803$_o.91647@attbi_s71...
Phil Wheeler wrote:
Incredible insight :-)
But a name like Bevis does carry some credibility baggage :-;
Right! :-)
Maybe not so much credibility baggage as you'd think.
During the 1950s, Dr. Howard L. Bevis was President of the Ohio State University.
Did you notice where the survey came from?
I don't know if Michael Bevis is related to Howard, though.
It could be a mere coincidence.
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I was referring to a certain character recently in the "polular" media,
not academia. T'was a joke :-) |
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Sam Wormley
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Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:08 am Post subject:
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Phil Wheeler wrote:
| Quote: | Sam Wormley wrote:
Getting ready for the 'big one,' researchers make most detailed
survey ever of San Andreas Fault
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-12/osu-grf120605.php
Images show never-before-seen fault lines -- plus cows, trees
And ...
Looking at one of the images, Bevis easily picked out the SUV
belonging to team members who drove along the fault ahead of the
plane. Even the tripod holding one of their portable GPS stations was
visible. He identified other dots on the image as cows and small
trees.
How could he tell which ones were cows? "When we looked back later,
some of them had moved," he said.
Incredible insight :-)
But a name like Bevis does carry some credibility baggage :-;
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Right! :-) |
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John R. Copeland
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Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:08 am Post subject:
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"Sam Wormley" <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in message news:98Olf.609803$_o.91647@attbi_s71...
| Quote: | Phil Wheeler wrote:
Incredible insight :-)
But a name like Bevis does carry some credibility baggage :-;
Right! :-)
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Maybe not so much credibility baggage as you'd think.
During the 1950s, Dr. Howard L. Bevis was President of the Ohio State University.
Did you notice where the survey came from?
I don't know if Michael Bevis is related to Howard, though.
It could be a mere coincidence. |
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Phil Wheeler
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Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:08 am Post subject:
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Sam Wormley wrote:
And ...
| Quote: | Looking at one of the images, Bevis easily picked out the SUV
belonging to team members who drove along the fault ahead of the
plane. Even the tripod holding one of their portable GPS stations was
visible. He identified other dots on the image as cows and small
trees.
How could he tell which ones were cows? "When we looked back later,
some of them had moved," he said.
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Incredible insight :-)
But a name like Bevis does carry some credibility baggage :-; |
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John R. Copeland
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Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:08 pm Post subject:
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"Phil Wheeler" <w6tuh-ng7@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:oRRlf.1771$pE4.1464@tornado.socal.rr.com...
| Quote: | John R. Copeland wrote:
"Sam Wormley" <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in message news:98Olf.609803$_o.91647@attbi_s71...
Phil Wheeler wrote:
Incredible insight :-)
But a name like Bevis does carry some credibility baggage :-;
Right! :-)
Maybe not so much credibility baggage as you'd think.
During the 1950s, Dr. Howard L. Bevis was President of the Ohio State University.
Did you notice where the survey came from?
I don't know if Michael Bevis is related to Howard, though.
It could be a mere coincidence.
I was referring to a certain character recently in the "polular" media,
not academia. T'was a joke :-)
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Yeah, I know. Heheh -- Heheh! |
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Bruce E. Stemplewski
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:19 am Post subject:
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Sam Wormley wrote:
Where are the cows and trees? :)
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Bruce E. Stemplewski
GarXface OCX and C++ Class Library for the Garmin GPS
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Phil Wheeler
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:08 am Post subject:
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Bruce E. Stemplewski wrote:
What? You didn't see them? :-) |
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Mike
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Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:08 am Post subject:
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On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 03:41:44 GMT, Phil Wheeler <w6tuh-ng7@yahoo.com>
wrote:
... >Bruce E. Stemplewski wrote:
... >> Sam Wormley wrote:
... >>
... >>> Getting ready for the 'big one,' researchers
... >>> make most detailed survey ever of San Andreas Fault
... >>> http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-12/osu-grf120605.php
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... >>> Images show never-before-seen fault lines -- plus cows, trees
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... >>>
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... >> Where are the cows and trees? :)
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... >What? You didn't see them? :-)
They must have moved again !
Mike |
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bcd
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Sat Dec 10, 2005 9:08 am Post subject:
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Is it April already?! I must've slept through Christmas ... again ...
PS Check latest issue of IEEE's Spectrum magazine for article on
"predicting" earthquakes.
On 12/8/05 23:46, in article 6idip1hi6eaj4fp3uema5fgsaa605uni8r@4ax.com,
"Mike" <mike@northyorkshire.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 03:41:44 GMT, Phil Wheeler <w6tuh-ng7@yahoo.com
wrote:
.. >Bruce E. Stemplewski wrote:
.. >> Sam Wormley wrote:
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.. >>> Getting ready for the 'big one,' researchers
.. >>> make most detailed survey ever of San Andreas Fault
.. >>> http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-12/osu-grf120605.php
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.. >>> Images show never-before-seen fault lines -- plus cows, trees
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.. >> Where are the cows and trees? :)
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.. >What? You didn't see them? :-)
They must have moved again !
Mike |
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