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TARGET ACQUIRED
NSA Command Center
“It’s here!” Branson yelled, pointing to the map. “Right here, at Parkfield! Why didn’t I think of that before?”
“What’s Parkfield?” Knuckles said.
“It’s the site of the drilling effort that began in 2004. The research observatory? Anybody following me?”
“No,” Jana said.
“The San Andreas Fault is the site of a massive effort to drill into the earth’s crust to investigate the fault at depth. It’s the only place in the world anything like this has ever been attempted. And it’s here at the town of Parkfield, California. The San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth, or SAFOD, they call it. The hole is nearly two miles deep, drilled straight into the fault line.”
“But Parkfield looks like it’s over two hundred miles from San Francisco. How could he da
