The San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) was a research project that began in 2002 aimed at collecting geological data about the San Andreas Fault for the purpose of predicting and analyzing future earthquakes. The site consists of a pilot hole and a main hole. Drilling operations ceased in 2007. Located near the town of Parkfield, California, the project installed geophone sensors and GPS clocks in a borehole that cut directly through the fault. Data collected at SAFOD are available from The Northern California Earthquake Data Center at U.C. Berkeley and from NSF SAGE Facility Data Services operated by EarthScope Consortium, formerly known as the IRIS DMC.
See also
- Chikyū Hakken, deep oceanic drilling program
- Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
- Kola Borehole (1970–2005, )
- KTB Borehole (1987–1995, )
- Mohorovičić discontinuity
- Project Mohole
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Further reading
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External links
- Earthscope
- SAFOD at ICDP-Online.org