water torture - 08/04/05 10:50 PM
Q & A is slow today so perhaps I may be permitted a "Jeopardy-like" question:
What is "water torture"?
It isn't a form of torture outlawed by the Geneva Conventions.
Those who are interested in seismic science and geophysics may be interested in this, quite apart from the novel usage of the term "water torture":
Borehole reaches fault's active zone
San Andreas probe could reveal how to predict quakes
Los Angeles Times, August 4, 2005
Drilling of the hole began in June 2004. A year later, after delays due to winter and technical mishaps, the drill rig was thrusting into the fault zone with difficulty, at only 6 to 9 feet an hour, Zoback said. But during the past few days, the drill's speed picked up to 41 feet an hour as the borehole emitted bursts of radon, carbon dioxide and hydrocarbon gases. "And the long time of water torture was over," he said.
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"This is a major physics experiment," Ellsworth said, "and our goal is to get very, very close to earthquakes where they start small and then grow until they rupture the ground dangerously."
The new understanding that the quake observatory brings to seismic science, Ellsworth said, will have tremendous practical value, too, because it will yield information crucial to improved building codes and quake-resistant structures.
http://snipurl.com/gq97
What is "water torture"?
It isn't a form of torture outlawed by the Geneva Conventions.
Those who are interested in seismic science and geophysics may be interested in this, quite apart from the novel usage of the term "water torture":
Borehole reaches fault's active zone
San Andreas probe could reveal how to predict quakes
Los Angeles Times, August 4, 2005
Drilling of the hole began in June 2004. A year later, after delays due to winter and technical mishaps, the drill rig was thrusting into the fault zone with difficulty, at only 6 to 9 feet an hour, Zoback said. But during the past few days, the drill's speed picked up to 41 feet an hour as the borehole emitted bursts of radon, carbon dioxide and hydrocarbon gases. "And the long time of water torture was over," he said.
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"This is a major physics experiment," Ellsworth said, "and our goal is to get very, very close to earthquakes where they start small and then grow until they rupture the ground dangerously."
The new understanding that the quake observatory brings to seismic science, Ellsworth said, will have tremendous practical value, too, because it will yield information crucial to improved building codes and quake-resistant structures.
http://snipurl.com/gq97