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IUGG XXIV General Assembly July 2-13, 2007 Perugia, Italy<br />

(S) - <strong>IASPEI</strong> - International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's<br />

Interior<br />

JSS016 Oral Presentation 2343<br />

Surprising Science Arising from Exploring the Earth from Deep Ocean<br />

Observatories<br />

Dr. Rhett Butler<br />

Global Seismographic Network The IRIS Consortium <strong>IASPEI</strong><br />

Fred Duennebier, Cinna Lomnitz<br />

The Hawaii-2 Observatory (H2O) deployed at the sea floor between Hawaii and California from 1998-<br />

2003 and the Ocean Seismic Network Pilot Experiment (OSN1) deployed in 1998 225 km SSW of Oahu<br />

each yielded scientific results which were unanticipated when the observatories were planned and<br />

funded. These 'surprises' present the essence of discovery in science and offer compelling motivations<br />

for continuing our scientific exploration of Earth in the deep oceans, not simply for what we hope to<br />

find, but rather for what we have not yet even imagined. Nanoearthquakes (M

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