[MR] Fwd: [OT] Quake sensors removed around Virginia nuke plant due to budget cuts

[David Chessler]

Many earthquakes are preceded by vibrations and small earthquakes. This can
provide a warning, and can also suggest that precautions be taken. There will
also be aftershocks that should be measured.

I can't say much more because I'm not a geologist, but if people do put
measuring instruments in a sensitive location (such as a nuclear power plant
built on a fault line), they probably have some hope of gaining useful
information. YMMV

------ Original Message ------
Received: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:37:45 PM EDT
From: "Roy B. Scherer" <rscherer at lairhaven.com>
To: "David Chessler" <chessler at usa.net>,	"Atlantia" 
<atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>,"East Kingdom"  <sca-east at mail.indra.com>
Subject: Re: [MR] Fwd: [OT] Quake sensors removed around Virginia nuke plant
due to budget cuts

> At 08:51 PM 8/23/2011, David Chessler wrote:
> >According to the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME),
the
> >Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory (VTSO) removed all seismographs
from
> >around the plant in the 1990s due to budget cuts.
> 
> Milord -
>          I'm not at all sure just how a seismograph would have helped 
> today, though  I suppose that one could look at the trace later, and 
> confirm that there had indeed been an earthquake.
> -- Britton
> 
> 
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