2025-008-FA (CMHRP activity #9524)

Field Activity 2025-008-FA

Identifier

2025-008-FA

Alternate names

2025 Mendocino RROBS Recovery

Purpose

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

Location

Offshore of Cape Mendocino within 40 Nautical Miles

Info derived

Ocean bottom seismometer, navigation

Projects

Marine Geohazards Sources and Probability

Platform

Coral Sea

Length: 90 feet; Beam: 22 feet.

Itinerary

Start	Eureka, CA	2025-01-20
End	Eureka, CA	2025-02-02
Days in the field	2-3

Bounds

West	-126.07910156
East	-124.60693359
North	40.86367967
South	40.01078714

Personnel

Organization

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution(WHOI)

Woods Hole, MA02543

Organization

USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center(WHCMSC)

384 Woods Hole Road

Quissett Campus

Woods Hole, MA02543-1598

(508) 548-8700

Principal investigators

Nathaniel C Miller

Crew members

Eric Moore	Scientist, Staff
Wayne E Baldwin	Scientist, Staff

Information specialist(s)

Wayne E Baldwin

Specialist, Information

Affiliate staff

Hannah Brewer (WHOI-OBSIC)

Data types and categories

Data category:	Location-Elevation, Seismics
Data type:	Navigation, Ocean Bottom Seismometer

Equipment used

Equipment	Usage description	Data types	Datasets
DGPS		Navigation	(no data reported)
Ocean Bottom Seismometer		Ocean Bottom Seismometer	(no data reported)

Field Activity 2025-008-FA

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Data types and categories

Equipment used

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity