Instrumentation for Rapid Temperature Measurement at Depth on the Wenchuan Fault

在这个小型勘探研究补助金(SGER)中，一个国际研究团队计划在2008年5月12日发生7.9级汶川地震的断裂带中动员和钻探一个技术复杂的深井。由中国地质科学院领导的一个小组将钻探这个洞。该项目将支持对仪器的升级，该仪器将部署在通过断层的第一个井眼中。只要传感器在深处运行，升级就可以实现快速的温度测量。该项目将使研究人员能够获得一个罕见的数据集，用于调查断层摩擦，这是地震中最重要的单一物理过程。这项工作也代表了美国科学家和中国之间的一次重要合作。

In this Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER), an international research team plans to mobilize and drill a technically complex deep borehole into the fault zone that generated the devastating May 12, 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake. A group led by the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences will drill the hole. This project will support an upgrade to instrumentation that will be deployed in the first borehole through the fault. The upgrade will allow rapid temperature measurements through time as long as the sensors are operational at depth. This project will enable the investigators to obtain a rare data set that will be used to investigate fault friction which is the single most important physical process in an earthquake. The work also represents an important collaboration between scientists from the U.S. and China.