Is there any way to improve the accuracy of the location of the main seismic event on August 6?
Seismologists at the University of Utah are using various tools to try to refine the location of the main seismic event and other seismic events in the vicinity of the Crandall Canyon mine. Some techniques help improve the relative location of seismic events with respect to each other. Other techniques aim to find correction terms for the travel times of seismic waves to recording stations so that the absolute location of individual seismic events can be improved (click here for map). In the case of the Crandall Canyon seismic event, one aim will be to evaluate the significance of any differences between “ground truth,” namely the location and time of the mine collapse (as eventually verified), and corresponding seismological information for the source of the largest seismic event on August 6.
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