Our Nuclear Future: Why Fossil Fuels Aren't On The Agenda | 25 comments (25 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Holy Hole (none / 1)

We discussed it on January 8.

"It's the statue, man, The Statue."

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Mar 2nd, 2007 at 06:34:08 AM EST
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Re: Holy Hole (none / 0)

How did you find that??????? :-) and thanks!

by Fran on Fri Mar 2nd, 2007 at 06:49:38 AM EST
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Re: Holy Hole (none / 1)

I searched the archived comments for "earthquake".

"It's the statue, man, The Statue."

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Mar 2nd, 2007 at 06:50:12 AM EST
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Yeah well (none / 1)

We never came around to resolve that one, did we? I'm still not sure -where- they're actually drilling. If you look at their cross section (small pdf!) , I get the feeling they could have sunk shafts down onto the major fault surface. Does anyone know what the "ungef. Position Riehen 1 + 2" means - that's the critical area.

by Nomad (Bjinse) on Fri Mar 2nd, 2007 at 07:52:08 AM EST
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Re: Yeah well (none / 1)

That would mean approximate (ungefähr) position, right?

"It's the statue, man, The Statue."

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Mar 2nd, 2007 at 07:57:19 AM EST
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Ah (none / 1)

Okay! Riehen, Voltaplatz and Otterbach are the towns/villages, I guess. I still don't get at what locations they are drilling. If they sunk a shaft at Voltaplatz and Otterbach and the geology is correct, there is little reason to be mistrusting. Riehen is the interesting one.

Right. Found it.

The test sites are at Otterbach, they drilled 2 wells, with the first one not successful so they had to start all over again.

From this graph it seems they are drilling the real thing at the Voltaplatz. (Fran, any chance you could confirm this?) So they're not on top of the brittle fault, but I'm really curious if people know how the main fault starts behaving at greater depth...

by Nomad (Bjinse) on Fri Mar 2nd, 2007 at 10:27:10 AM EST
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Re: Ah (none / 1)

Thanks Nomad, I have to find out. The Voltaplatz is a place/square more or less in the middle of the city and Kleinhüningen is a part of the city, more on the outskirts. As far as I know Otterbach is the "Zoll" between Weil und Basel.

by Fran on Fri Mar 2nd, 2007 at 10:30:41 AM EST
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Re: Yeah well (none / 0)

Well, it is not that urgent anymore. The earth here has calmed down again, no more quakes the last few weeks.

by Fran on Fri Mar 2nd, 2007 at 10:27:37 AM EST
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