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Broken instruments impact Earthscope

MAY 06, 2009
Physics Today

Nature News : As US geophysicists gathered last week to celebrate EarthScope , one of their most ambitious programmes ever, researchers let slip an embarrassing fact that they had kept largely under wraps for 6 months. One major element of the project âmdash; a suite of instruments buried deep in California’s San Andreas fault âmdash; is broken. Researchers are making do with a trickle of data from a temporary instrument.

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