March 10, 2010
Shake, Rattle & Roll: Chilean "Dance Floor" is Learning Lab
Earth scientists, like Mike Bevis, are not particularly put off by the idea of the ground rumbling underneath their feet. In fact, Bevis, who heads the Central and Southern Andes GPS Project that has monitored the area’s crustal motion and deformation activities for the past 17 years, sees it as an opportunity to discover more of the earth’s deepest secrets.
Bevis and other geophysicists on the ground in Chile are already learning that the 8.8 earthquake on its western shore has moved cities, shifted the earth’s axis and caused major tidal waves. Bevis, who is still in Santiago organizing teams of scientists to carry out extensive field work, hopes to return to Ohio State in a couple of weeks.
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