Dr. Anne Sheehan likes getting high ย elevation-ally speaking, that is. Sheยll be telling viewers about it at her ยSeeing Beneath Mount Everest: Probing a Breeding Ground of Destructive Earthquakesย presentation as part of the Houston Museum of Natural Scienceยs Distinguished Lecture series. Sheehan, with the University of Colorado, Boulder, recently led a scientific tour of the Mount Everest region, including Nepal and southern Tibet, home to the worldยs most violent and unpredictable earthquakes. Recording the earthquake faults beneath the Himalayan mountains, the group placed seismometers in remote, earthquake-prone areas, overcoming the landscape, weather, scorpions, cobras and guerrilla warfare in Nepal in the process.
This article appears in Aug 9-15, 2007.