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Developing a stress monitoring site near Húsavík, N-Iceland

The town Húsavík, N-Iceland, is situated in a seismic zone of earthquakes reaching magnitude 7. Based on the success within the PRENLAB projects of monitoring stress changes by observing shear-wave splitting from local small earthquakes, a test site has been set up near Húsavík where active sources of seismic waves will be applied to observe changes in shear-wave splitting. Other observational methods, research results and experience gained in the PRENLAB projects will also be applied in this project which is supported by EU. This project (SMSITES) is shortly described under Subproject 3.



Hjorleifur Sveinbjornsson
2001-01-08