"Last week, Japanese scientists "explaced"... placed explosive detonators at the bottom of Lake Loch Ness... to blow Nessie out of the water."
Posted on 07/13/2014 7:17:29 AM PDT by Morgana
If you're planning to go hiking or Bigfooting in Helens sometime in the next couple of weeks, we suggest you stay away from locations where these 70 something passive seismic stations are located. Scientists are planning to set off a bunch of explosives all around the volcano to learn more about it and get a detailed map of what the volcano looks like 50 miles below the surface. According to Gizmodo:
The explosions are part of a research project called iMUSH, or Imaging Magma Under St. Helens. As Nature reports, the project staff will be hiking through the mountain to set up for the experiment this coming week: "They will drill 24 holes some 25 metres deep, drop in industrial explosives used for quarrying, and refill the holes...The plan is to detonate the explosives in separate shots over four nights. Each blast will shake the ground as much as a magnitude-2 earthquake." The movement of these shock waves through the Earth will let geologists map the underground chambers of the volcano.
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What could possibly go wrong?
BigFoot gathers up the explosives and drops ‘em down the piehole of St. Helens?
JellySTone cauldera erupts as a result of back pressure..
What could possibly go wrong?
Yep, I loved that book. It was fascinating the circumstances that were the perfect storm that night. Glacier Natl Park in Montana.
“The passive sensors are where the vibrations from the explosions are detected, not where the explosives are placed. Duh! ......”
I have to ask. If anyone is doing explosions up there would they not forbid any hikers from entering? Or is that just me? Then again there are some tree huggers who would go out anyway, I guess.
"Last week, Japanese scientists "explaced"... placed explosive detonators at the bottom of Lake Loch Ness... to blow Nessie out of the water."
The article said "Each blast will shake the ground as much as a magnitude-2 earthquake". Wikipedia says that a magnitude 2 earthquake has the energy equal to 15 kilograms of TNT, so I doubt they have to clear out the entire mountain, just the area around the detonations.
Is that a picture of Nessie?
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