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Southern California IntegratedGPS Network (SCIGN)
Kenneth W. Hudnut
U. S. Geological Survey
U.S. – Japan Natural Resources Panel on Earthquake ResearchU. S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park - November 14, 2000
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Continuous GPS
• Best tool ever devised for highly accurate, automated, constant monitoring of crustal strain for– long baselines– absolute ref. frame– displacement field– high precision
• SCIGN & other PBO elements require sub-millimeter velocities on the plate boundary scale in order to answer the scientific questions
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Faults & Earthquakes
• San Andreas fault zone– North American and Pacific
plate relative motions of 56 mm/yr in a right-lateral sense
• Eastern Californiashear zone– Accomodation of right-
lateral motion inboard of Sierra Nevada block
– Estimated rates of some 8-12 mm/yr (geological & space geodetic)
– Easier to go through than the Big Bend?
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SCEC crustal motion map
• Combined EDM,
VLBI, survey-mode
and continuous GPS
rigorously
• Released as a
SCEC product
• Set the bar very
high for the SCIGN
project
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Plate tectonic motions• For the past 5
million years, this motion has been very steady at about 5 cm/yr
• From long-base laser strainmeter and geodolite data, steady rates of motion are seen
• Will higher resolution instruments see temporal variation in strain rate? tectonic reconstruction and movie by Tanya Atwater, UCSB
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The major objectives of the SCIGN array are:
* To provide regional coverage for estimating earthquake potential throughout Southern California
To identify active blind thrust faults and test models of compressional tectonics in the Los Angeles region
To measure local variations in strain rate that might reveal the mechanical properties of earthquake faults
In the event of an earthquake, to measure permanent crustal deformation not detectable by seismographs, as well as the response of major faults to the regional change in strain
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SCIGN project installation: 250 sites by end of 2000
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SCIGN station installation
• Each of 5 legs is drilled to 10 meters
• Lowermost 6 meters is anchored to earth by concrete grout
• Uppermost 4 meters is isolated from soil by foam
• Stainless for longevitymovie by John Galetzka, USGS
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Analysis comparisonsby King, Hurst, van Domselaar & Langbein
• Time series reprocessed by JPL and SIO; similar -– reference frame
implementation
– processing strategy
• Mean differences for each of 6100+ baselines
• Line length proportional differences at <9 ppb
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Hector Mine (Mw7.1)Photo by Paul ‘Kip’ Otis-Diehl,USMC, 29 Palms
Helicopter support by OES and National Guard
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Hector Mine eq.: modelled displacement field
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Post-seismic deployment
• GPS for precise absolute position changes
• GPS data from
these instruments will also show us afterslip and other post-seismic phenomena
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Short-braced monument• Requires
bedrock• Remote
installation is feasible
• Half as expensive as drilled-braced (but not as stable)
• Useful for special post-earthquake network deployments
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Post-seismic deformation• Stations near the
earthquake fault continue to move after the earthquake– Less than 20 mm
motion recorded, so we required extremely high precision data
– Too much motion to be explained by aftershocks
– Requires a deep source in the lower crust
– Large scale relaxation phenomenon
– May explain fault interaction between large earthquakes
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Inboard shear strain transfer (preliminary & speculative)
• Savage et al. (1993) and Johnson et al. (1994) showed NW-SE pull apart of 8 mm/a in USGS geodolite data prior to 1992 Landers sequence [orange]
• We see similar pattern after Hector Mine, farther to northeast [red]
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GPS & telemetry/networking
• Market for GPS boards is driven by Moore’s law (like PC’s) toward faster/better/cheaper, miniaturization, etc.
• Spread spectrum radio and satellite telemetry leading to high bandwidth IP field networking (e.g., TDMA)
• Allows higher sampling rates and more affordable real-time telemetry
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SCIGN data acquisition and processing system
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New methods: high-resolution topographic mapping and digital photography
• Laser scanning using an airborne platform requires high sampling-rate GPS data during flight to control aircraft position and attitude
• SCIGN stations were operated at 1 and 2 sample per second rates via the radio network
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Existing GPS Networks in North America
• International GPS Service (IGS)• So. Calif. Integrated GPS Network
(SCIGN)• Bay Area Regional Deformation
(BARD)• Basin and Range GPS Network
(BARGEN)• Pacific Northwest GPS Array (PANGA)• Eastern Basin and Range &
Yellowstone (EBRY)• Contin. Operating Reference Stations
(CORS)• SuomiNet, FSL, INEGI, WCDA, etc.
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Conclusions• Networks of continuously operating GPS stations
in the U. S. and Japan give us a higher resolution method to search for temporal variations in strain with renewed hope of learning about earthquake related processes
• Geodesy is now feasible in a network mode, similar to seismology – it is time to incorporate both, side by side, into modern earthquake monitoring networks – extending our reach to truly broad-band observational capabilities so that we can detect and study a wider range of seismic and aseismic phenomena