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2.5 Mile Deep Hole Drilled Into San Andreas Fault

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the heart-of-the-matter dept.

iandoh writes "Cool research: Geologists at Stanford University and the US Geological Survey have drilled a 2.5 mile deep borehole into the San Andreas fault. They've extracted over one ton of rock from 2 miles down, and they'll be installing sensors down the length of the borehole."

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  1. Re:The fools! by Dunbal · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    this will cause a fault to spread across the hemisphere and cause a major part of the planet to fly away.

          Hopefully the United States.

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