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Project Highlights 2005 - Cascadia Episodic Tremor and Slip Event
Cascadia Episodic Tremor and Slip Event
- Principal Investigator (PI): Ken Creager, Dan Johnson & Rick Bennett
- UNAVCO Engineers: Freddy Blume & Nicole Feldl
- Dates: July 2005
- Location: Clallam Bay, Washington
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The campaign GPS deployment to monitor the upcoming Cascadia Episodic
Tremor and Slip event is underway, with the first 3 of an expected 30
stations installed on 2 August in the western Olympic Peninsula. The
project, "Stalking Cascadia episodic tremor and slip with enhanced GPS
and seismic arrays", is the first EarthScope funded use of the new
UNAVCO supported pool of Topcon GB-1000 campaign GPS systems.
Principal investigators Ken Creager and Dan Johnson of the University
of Washington and Rick Bennett of the University of Arizona hope to
gain a better understanding of the periodic slow earthquakes that have
been recently discovered to occur in the Cascadia subduction zone using
a dense array of both GPS and broadband seismic equipment. The
deployment is expected to be completed by mid-August and will last up
to 3 months or until the ETS event has completed. The photo shows PI
Dan Johnson of UW, University of Puget Sound undergraduate field
assistant Nick Carman, and UNAVCO Facility Project Engineer Nicole
Feldl installing station OL11 above Clallam Bay, WA. Vancouver Island,
Canada is visible across the Juan de Fuca Strait to the left.
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Last modified Wednesday, 19-Jul-2006 00:50:03 UTC
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