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Field Activity Details for field activity 2025-008-FA

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Other ID: 2025 Mendocino RROBS Recovery

Status: Pending

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

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

Principal Investigator(s): Nathaniel Miller

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Wayne Baldwin

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To recover rapid response ocean bottom seismometers (RROBS) deployed offshore of Cape Mendocino to record aftershocks following a Dec 5th 2024 M7.0 earthquake.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Eureka, CA

End Port/Location: Eureka, CA

Start Date: 2025-01-20

End Date: 2025-02-02

Equipment Used: DGPS, Ocean Bottom Seismometer

Information to be Derived: Ocean bottom seismometer, navigation

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Eric Moore, Wayne Baldwin

Affiliate Staff:
Hannah Brewer (WHOI-OBSIC)

Notes:

Location:

Offshore of Cape Mendocino within 40 Nautical Miles

Boundaries
North: 40.86367967 South: 40.01078714 West: -126.07910156 East: -124.60693359

Platform(s):

photo of Coral Sea
Coral Sea

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

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

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