This 'Hole' in the san andreas is much more than that - it has been in the works for a few years now - info on the whole Earthscope program (of which this is just a piece) can be found at the link below.

They are going to have all sorts of scientific intruments down in the well to measure creep, stress, and who knows what - see this link for those details: http://www.earthscope.org/program_plan/safod.html

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• Earthscope