Article: Trouble With Seismic Network

MATTHEW FORDAHL, AP Science Writer
AP Online
05-13-2000
Trouble With Seismic Network

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Southern California's advanced seismic-monitoring system faces a shaky future -- and not because of the earthquakes it locates and analyzes minutes after the ground stops moving.

Money for the system, known as TriNet, is set to be halved next year and end completely in 2002 as the grant that established the system expires. So far nobody has offered to pay an estimated $2 million in annual maintenance costs.

``I don't get it,'' said Lucy Jones, scientist in charge of the U.S. Geological Survey's Pasadena field office. ``People don't understand what it is that we're doing.''

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