Discovering new features of Thanh Thuy hot mineral water

Hot mineral water in La Phu and Bao Yen communes (Thanh Thuy district, Phu Tho province) containing Radon is a very good mineral water for health. In addition, monitoring abnormal changes in the concentration of Radon gas here can also predict earthquakes.

From 2000-2002, while studying the scientific topic of hot mineral water in the communes of La Phu, Bao Yen, Thanh Thuy district, Phu Tho province, Dr. Geology hydrography Cao The Dung, former General Director of Lien The mineral water production science association, now the Mineral Water Geological Union, discovered the first Radon (Rn) mineral waters in our country.

Scientific and economic value

So far, this hot mineral water mine has not been investigated in its entirety, has not been fully exploited, although hot mineral water has Rn very valuable for nursing.

Rn is a highly decaying radioactive gas, which explains why Rn is only detectable in abnormal high temperature centers. In these centers, hot mineral water is transmitted directly from the depths, time is not enough for Rn to decompose itself.

Drilling exploration of hot mineral water in Thanh Thuy.

When hot water mineral water infiltrates, spreads and mobilizes into the aquifer for a long time, the temperature also decreases due to transfer into the soil environment, groundwater and Rn also decompose themselves. So, away from the heat center, the temperature of hot water mineral water decreases, Rn is no longer detectable.

According to geologists, Thanh Thuy hot mineral water is formed and led up to the ground from a deep fault of Song Da, where the Northwest - Southeast fault intersection, in La Phu and Bao Yen areas is the place "impulse" facilitates hot water mineral water to rise and penetrate into the fourth layer of mixed rivers and streams.

When tectonic activity deep in the ground makes the major faults, deep faults come back, causing displacement, separation, compression, lifting . rock blocks, creating new faults, causing earthquake, intrusion of magma or volcanic eruption .

These activities allow heat, mineral water, hot water to reach the ground. Therefore, if abnormal changes such as sudden increase or decrease of heat flow, the concentration of Rn gas in places with 'weak' geological conditions such as La Phu, Bao Yen, Thanh Thuy districts, is followed. Seismic experts can predict earthquakes that occur in the near time in the Northern region and nearby.

Help prevent disaster

The most recent fact, seismic expert Giuliani of the Italian Institute of Astrophysics when detecting concentrated Rn gas with dense density in areas with unstable geological structure predicted the earthquake. big in this country in early April 2009.

Today there are many modern supporting devices and software, but the rate of forecasting correctly and proactively is still not high, the area of ​​natural disasters has not been actively prevented and serious disasters still occur.

In theory, we know that an earthquake is about to happen, there are often abnormal signs of seismic waves, the appearance of strange materials, strange gases but in our normal living environment. no. Seismic waves, strange materials, strange gases . often cause abnormal changes in the behavior of humans and animals.

Back in Thanh Thuy hot mineral water, nature gives us a valuable source of hot mineral water, but we have not fully exploited the value, which has the value as a place to forecast changes in the local activities. nature, of earthquakes.

Scientific and technological research institutes and organizations have the function of scientific research on the earth, tectonics, environment and geology . so this area is interested. A true forecast, a timely forecast will contribute to mitigate natural disasters.

KS Le Tu Hai and KS Hoang Hien (Geological Sciences Federation of mineral water)