Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Uri Ten Brink
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Gregory Miller
Data Type(s): Seismics: Ocean Bottom Seismometer, Location-Elevation: Navigation
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Deploy and recover ocean bottom seismometers as part of the SHIPS experiment to map the Seattle Fault and sedimentary basin under the Seattle urban area.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Seattle, WA
End Port/Location: Seattle, WA
Start Date: 1999-09-13
End Date: 1999-09-25
Equipment Used: Ocean Bottom Seismometer, GPS (wh)
Information to be Derived:
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 7 of the 8 were successfully deployed and recovered. The 8th OBS would not release from the bottom and remains in Puget Sound.
Staff: Gregory Miller, Jefferey Nealon, Joseph S. Newell
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Original Center People field contained: Greg Miller - tech, Joe Newell - tech 9/13 to 9/17, Jeff Nealon - tech 9/22 to 9/25.
Project = Dry SHIPS, Dry SHIPS
Location:
Seattle, Puget Sound, Washington, United States, North America, North Pacific;
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 47.66673 | South: 47.66558 | West: -122.4942 | East: -122.43667 |
Platform(s):
 S P Hayes |
Brocher, T.M., Clayton, R.W., Klitgord, K.D., Bohannon, R.G., Sliter, R.W., McRaney, J.K., Gardner, J.V., and Keene, J.B., 1995, Multichannel seismic-reflection profiling on the R/V Maurice Ewing during the Los Angeles Region Seismic Experiment (LARSE), California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-228, 70 p., 3 sheets, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr95228.
Brocher, T.M., Pratt, T.L., Miller, K.C., Trehu, A.M., Snelson, C.M., Weaver, C.S., Creager, K.C., Crosson, R.S., ten Brink, U.S., Alvarez, M.G., Harder, S.G., and Asudeh, I., 2000, Report for explosion and earthquake data acquired in the 1999 Seismic Hazards Investigation of Puget Sound (SHIPS), Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2000-318, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr00318.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean Bottom Seismometer | --- | Ocean Bottom Seismometer | |
| GPS (wh) | --- | Navigation |
