Friday, August 27, 1982
Daily Nebraskan
Page 9
Six new monitoring stations
to study state's earthquakes
By David Creamer
Nebraska: the land of Husker football,
tremendous stretches of farm land, an oc
casional tornado and . . . earthquakes?
Absolutely. Since 1866, Nebraska has
experienced at least 34 earthquakes, rang
ing from 1 .5 to 3 on the Richter scale, with
their epicenters in the state. An epicenter
is an area on the earth's surface directly
above the focus point where the earth
quake's energy is released.
The federal Nuclear Regulatory Com
mission is interested in trying to determine
the causes behind these earthquakes, and
if possible, discover some way to prevent
them from occurring.
Hence, the NRC is providing the Uni
versity of Kansas with a three-year, $203,
000 grant to establish six earthquake
monitoring stations in Nebraska.
These sites are Beatrice, Wahoo, John
son, Clay Center, Platte Center and Loup
City.
Ray Burchett of the UNL Conserva
tion and Survey Division said the reason
KU received the grant over UNL is that
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KU has three seismologists on its staff
and UNL doesn't have any.
UNL is oriented more toward the geo
logic areas, and KUs interests are more
toward seismic activity, Burchett said.
Another reason the grant was awarded
to KU is because information can be re
layed directly to Don Steeples of the Kan
sas Geological survey instead of first
coming through UNL and then being
mailed to KU as was done in the past,
he said.
According to Steeples, the six Nebras
ka stations will be used to supplement the
six already in existence in Kansas, and will
allow him to study smaller quakes with
improved accuracy.
Steeples also said that since this pro
ject has been going on for about six years,
the stations will be set up in locations
already found to be slightly active.
Monitoring stations will be scattered
along the Humbolt Fault, which extends
from the Omaha area all the way down to
Oklahoma City. The six Nebraska sites are
to be between Douglas and Richardson
counties.
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