Surface Creep on California Faults
http://cires.colorado.edu/~bilham/creepmeter.file/creepmeters.htm

Roger Bilham, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado


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This site provides data from a number of creepmeters in California. A creepmeter is an instrument that monitors the slow surface displacement of an active fault. Its function is not to measure fault slip during earthquakes, but to record the slow aseismic slip between earthquakes.


Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Regional Structural/Tectonic Activity, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Geography:Geospatial
Resource Type: Datasets and Tools:Datasets, Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work
Theme: Teach the Earth:Teaching Topics:Plate Tectonics, Teach the Earth:Course Topics:Structural Geology, GIS/Remote Sensing, Geophysics, Geodesy