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Field Activity Details for field activity 1994-005-FA

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Other ID: LARSE

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Uri Ten Brink

Affiliate Investigator(s): Gary Fuis, Tom Brocher - OEVE

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Seismics: Ocean Bottom Seismometer

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Map faults and crustal structure offshore/onshore Los Angeles area to assess earthquake hazard.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Long Beach, CA

End Port/Location: Long Beach, CA

Start Date: 1994-10-07

End Date: 1994-10-20

Equipment Used: 35 mm camera, Ocean Bottom Seismometer

Information to be Derived: Morphology;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: David Foster, Uri Ten Brink

Affiliate Staff:
Gary Fuis
Tom Brocher

Notes: EWING will serve as shooting ship; schedule based on EWING availability.
Project = OBS, OBS

Location:

offshore Los Angeles, California, United States, North America, North Pacific;

Boundaries
North: 34.02686543 South: 32.90008795 West: -118.77626872 East: -118.1091784

Platform(s):

photo of Yellowfin
Yellowfin

Publications

ten Brink, U.S., Drury, R.M., Miller, G.K., Brocher, T.M., and Okaya, D., 1996, Los Angeles Region Seismic Experiment (LARSE), California - off-shore seismic refraction component: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-027, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr9627.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
35 mm camera --- Photo
1994-005-FA-PH-001 (Deck photos of field activity operations)
Ocean Bottom Seismometer --- Ocean Bottom Seismometer

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