A magnetometer and some batteries from the back of a stolen pickup truck belonging to Quantec Geoscience caused a bomb scare in Kamloops, B.C. last Saturday. The local police bomb squad thought it looked suspicious enough, and consulted the Vancouver bomb squad as well. Downtown Kamloops was evacuated while the Vancouver bomb squad dealt with the situation. At left, a GEM GSM-19 Walking Magnetometer, possibly similar to the one mistaken for a bomb? [Source: CBC News. Image: Quantec Geoscience]
Airport authorities at the Charles B. Wheeler airport in Kansas City, MO were concerned about a leaking CMP joint 22-feet beneath the taxiway. The sand that was coming through the joint was detected on a […]
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Researchers from Zonge Engineering in my own Tucson, Arizona along with researchers at the University of Arizona’s Mining and Geological Engineering Department (my alma mater) have completed a report on a fiber optic monitoring system […]
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