More Seismic Activity Stops Mine Rescue Try

[Blue Belle]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070808/D8QSHOTG0.html

<SNIP>HUNTINGTON, Utah (AP) - Seismic activity has "totally shut down" efforts to reach six miners trapped below ground and has wiped out all the work done in the past day, a mine executive said Tuesday.

"We are back to square one underground," said Robert E. Murray, chairman of Murray Energy Corp., owner of the Crandall Canyon mine.

Still, "we should know within 48 to 72 hours the status of those trapped miners," Murray said. Rescue crews are drilling two holes into the mountain in an effort to communicate with the miners - provided they are still alive.

Meanwhile, unstable conditions below ground have thwarted rescuers' efforts to break through to the miners, who have been trapped 1,500 feet below the surface for nearly two days, Murray said. It will take a week to reach them that way, Murray said.

Murray has insisted the cave-in was caused by an earthquake. But government seismologists have said the pattern of ground-shaking picked up by their instruments around the time of the accident Monday appeared to have been caused not by an earthquake, but by the cave-in itself.

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Look for more of Murray stating that this cave-in was the product of an earthquake and not do to his reckless mining practices....
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[goodgd_yall]

1. Sounds like a crock to me.

What earthquake? I haven't checked the USGS site yet, but I would guess it's the frigging mine falling apart that's causing the shaking.

[malaise]

3. In a report on 360 now

USGS says there was no earthquake outside of the mine.

[liberalnurse]

4. If the cave-in is an act of "God"...

there will be NO LIABILITY for Mr. Murray. I read a post here earlier that Murray and Cheney are best buds. I see the kinship. :eyes:

[Blue Belle]

6. He's hoping it's an earthquake...

but God is having none of it.

[Ian David]

2. Oddly enough, by pure chance, The Sci-Fi channel played THIS episode of "Enterprise" last night

Carbon Creek
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Plot

<snip>

During pre-dinner conversation, Archer, out of curiosity, asks why T'Pol travelled from San Francisco to Carbon Creek, Pennsylvania prior to joining Enterprise. T'Pol reveals that, contrary to human belief, the first contact between humans and Vulcans did not occur in the mid-2060s after Zephram Cochrane made his first warp speed flight (see Star Trek: First Contact), but in fact the contact occurred a century earlier, in Carbon Creek. Trip and Archer react incredulously to this claim, so T'Pol offers to tell the story of this contact since her great-grandmother T'Mir was part of those events.

<snip>

During their months on Earth, the three Vulcans obtain menial jobs - T'Mir helps at the local pub, Stron becomes a handyman, while Mestral works in the mine, at one point utilizing advanced Vulcan technology in the form of a particle weapon to save the lives of a dozen trapped miners.

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_Creek

[liberalnurse]

5. I was thinking the same thing

as I watched the Enterprise Episode. I wish they still continued that series!