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Seismic Devices Record ShakesREXBURG, Idaho (AP)-It can't quite record the drop of a pin miles away, but Ricks College has some new earthquake-detecting devices it says are 2,-000 times more sensitive than its older equipment.School officials say the new seismic equipment probably is second only to University of Utah facilities in the Inter-mountain West.Edmund J. Williams, head ofBOISE, Idaho (AP)-Idaho’s Department of Transportation says it's likely to get crowded around Twin Falls Sept. 8 and suggested some altternate routes for people who must travel across the state.Sept. 8 is the scheduled date for Evel KnievePs rocket leap over the Snake River Canyon. Promoters said they hoped to attract up to 50,000 persons for the event, although there has been no word on actual sales.geology at the two-year school, owned'by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ■ Mormon) said the equipment has been installed this summer by the Bureau of Reclamation.Its main purpose is to study earthquakes at the Teton Dam construction site near Rexburg. The equipment will record earthquakes throughout the Upper Snake River Valley,“When the Boulder dam wasThe department said motorists should use extreme caution while driving in the Twin Falls area starting Sept. 6.Main routes through the area are Interstate 80 and U.S. 93.The department suggested these alternates:For east-west travel, motorists could gel off the Interstate at Bliss, use U.S. 26to Shoshone. U.S. 93 to near Jerome and Stale Highway 25 to the Ridgway interchange halfway between Twin Falls and Burley,built on the Colorado River and the reservoir filled, there were thousands of local earthquakes triggered by the construction/’ Williams said.Throe recording devices have been installed. One is on Games Mountain near Driggs: a second on the edge of Island Park and a third near Felt, Idaho, near the southwest corner of Yellowstone National Park.The seismometers will transmit earthquake aclivily to the Ricks equipment. An older recorder is located about a mile south of the college.Hicks also is linked wilh radio station WWV in Fori Collins. Coin., which transmits the exact time of day down to thousandths of a second. The lime ;s used to calibrate equipment.Williams said the equipment will be valuable in training geology students and should provide new information on earthquakes in the area. One earthquake recently was so strong it broke the needle on the seismic instrument, he said.Alternate Routes Suggested As Result of Knievel's Jump
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Idaho State Journal
Pocatello, Idaho, US
Thu, Aug 29, 1974
Page 6
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