[time-nuts] USGS: GPS for seismic work

Per Molund pmolund at gmail.com
Sun May 20 08:06:07 UTC 2012


Slightly different application, using GPS to predict rock slide:

http://www.amerisurv.com/PDF/TheAmericanSurveyor_Schrock-GuardiansOfTheRock_Vol9No3.pdf

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At 07:22 20.05.2012, Hal Murray wrote:

info at blackmountainforge.com said:
> They also use GPS units for tectonic shift.  Put a unit on each plate and
> measure the difference between them.  When it gets to be a large enough
> number, something, somewhere will slip and you will have a quake.

Yes, but that's the DC term.

The seismologists and surveyors are real good at using GPS for that.  The
standard setup involves post processing.

I'm not a wizard in that area.  (not even close)

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