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  • Experiment Name: Implosion of the Seattle Kingdome
  • PI: Brocher
  • Email: brocher@andreas.wr.usgs.gov
  • Sponsor: USGS
  • Inst: USGS
  • Start_Date: 3/1/2000
  • End_Date: 4/30/2000
  • Lat: 47.625
  • Long: -122.375
  • Chan3: 200
  • L28: 200
  • Texan: 100
  • Descr: We plan to deploy 30 Refteks around the Seattle Kingdome, the now abandoned sports stadium. The Refteks will be placed in either a linear or 2-D array and will provide information on the site conditions in Seattle and the seismic velocities of the near-surface sedimentary layers within the Seattle Basin.

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