On the one hand, they are welcome since fractured rocks in the path of these faults make for excellent reservoirs for oil and gas; as a result, some land owners in the Finger Lakes region are experiencing a kind of "gas boom," profiting from selling drilling rights on their land to oil and gas-exploration companies. The 380th ARW also controlled the 42nd Air Refueling
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Most locations also had an associated "ground
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A popular theory, though difficult to test, according to The Sieve is that there is a hotspot under the mountain chain. No fault lines in NY State area of Plattsburg? Residents from Maine to Maryland reported being awakened by the rumble. Top Stories | of the first Atlas launch complex began at F.E. Jacobi conducted the work with John Fountain, professor and chair of the Department of Geology.
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Plattsburgh's tankers were assigned to Grand Forks AFB, N.D., McConnell AFB, Kan.,
in some level of operation even on the "surface," AND EM/RF signal detection equipment verified that
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KML (Google Earth-type) files and GIS shape files are also available for download from the site. Won Young Kim, a seismologist with Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth
a four-month operation.
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Kathleen Morrow, 31, of Northfield, in central Vermont, said the jolt woke
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earthquake on the north-east coast, which registered five-point-one on the
The Maine National Guard Huey was replaced by an air force helicopter and crew from Plattsburgh AFB. from the others so that each could independently survive an enemy strike on any other base. Sampley made numerous attempts by radio on all available communications bands, civilian and military,
Chart Courtesy of the New York State Museum. But these upstate areas may be about to gain a reputation for greater seismic potential, according to recent research by a team of UB geologists. Location: Just Northeast of Limestone, Maine. Kimberbeth
Although it is no longer an active Air Force Base today, in 1975 Loring AFB was a Strategic Air Command Base
Jacobi has about $1 million in research funding, primarily from the New York State Energy Research and Development Agency, and the U.S. Department of Energy. One resident reported that "everything was shaking." William Ott, a seismologist at Weston Observatory at Boston College, said the quake measured 5.1 on the Richter
in a ceremony Sept. 26, 1994.
miles north of New York City. dad was a longtime Air Force guy,
"Because these faults are also intracontinental in nature, they too, could be capable of large-magnitude events.". her husband up and the shaking continued for several seconds.
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In 1884, Brooklyn was rattled by an earthquake originating near the Ramapo Fault System. to Maryland. populated. and representative of what is probably a mid-latitude response at ground-level
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| property due to be "recycled" for various other uses by September 1995. Sandy Caligiore, of Lake Placid, said he felt the shaking for about 30 seconds. 1958 and 1964 the Corps of Engineers built launch facilities for 13 Atlas squadrons. The launch sites, built with frantic urgency and at great
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