International drilling expedition to probe Japanese fault zone
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 08:31
in Earth & Climate
(PhysOrg.com) -- The scientific drilling ship Chikyu will set sail on April 1 on an ambitious expedition to drill into the fault that caused the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. Emily Brodsky, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been planning for this project since 2008, when she helped organize an international workshop on "rapid response drilling."