On the early morning of August 20, a convoy of heavy-duty trucks loaded with instruments and equipment hit the road to the vastness of the World Roof. With the arrival of CAS geophysicists in Lhasa the next day, the annual field expedition in 2005 started on schedule.
The 40-day-long expedition is expected to conclude at the eve of the National Holiday on October 1. The 35-membered investigative team is headed by Prof. Zhao Junmeng and covers an itinerary as long as 710km on the inhospitable wilderness in northern Tibet. Equipped with 72 broad-waveband seismographs, the survey has five working groups. Apart from scientists with the CAS Institute of Tibet Plateau Research, experts and technicians coming from the Sichuan Provincial Bureau of Earthquakes and the government of Tibet Autonomous Region are in the membership of the expedition.
