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Field Activity Details for field activity 2016-019-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Marine Geohazards Sources and Probability (LQ00ENR)

Principal Investigator(s): Nathaniel Miller, Uri Ten Brink

Affiliate Investigator(s): John Collins, WHOI

Information Specialist(s): Claudia Flores

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Ocean Bottom Seismometer

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Relocate earthquakes; map the shape of the downgoing slab

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico

End Port/Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico

Start Date: 2016-04-15

End Date: 2016-05-31

Equipment Used: DGPS, Other, Ocean Bottom Seismometer

Information to be Derived: Recording of local and teleseismic earthquakes

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Recovered 6 broadband OBS that had been deployed in May 2015.

Staff: Nathaniel Miller

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Recovery of 6 broad-band OBS on the M/V Umbra.

Location:

Puerto Rico Trench, Northeast Caribbean, Atlantic Ocean

Boundaries
North: 19.5 South: 18.5 West: -68 East: -64

Platform(s):

photo of Umbra
Umbra

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
DGPS --- Navigation
Other --- --- ---
Ocean Bottom Seismometer --- Ocean Bottom Seismometer

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