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GNSS Seismometer

 

Real-time Monitoring of Co-seismic Deformation with RTNet

  Real-time monitoring of Co-seismic Deformation with RTNet

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Rapid Faultt Modeling with RTNet PPP Solution

Reference: Wright, T. J., N. Houlie M. Hildyard, and T. Iwabuchi (2012), Real-time, reliable magnitudes for large earthquakes from 1 Hz GPS Precise Point Positioning: the 2011 Tohoku-Oki (Japan) earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L12302, doi:10.1029/2012GL051894, 2012.

 

GNSS Seismometer

Real-time GNSS network can be used to monitor seismic waves. The advantage of GNSS observation is that GNSS solution is not acceleration but positions of GNSS antenna, and GNSS works even in strong earthquake cases, as shown in the case of 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan.