Hybrid GPS-Seismic System Can Accelerate Earthquake Response
DEC 13, 2012
Researchers aim to reduce time of assessing seismic events.
Hybrid GPS-Seismic System Can Accelerate Earthquake Response
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Hybrid GPS-Seismic System Aims to Accelerate Earthquake Hazard Response
Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center (SOPAC)
Inside Science Buzzwords:
- Global Positioning System (GPS) - A satellite-based navigation system that uses approximately 30 satellites, each containing atomic clocks, that circle the Earth and can precisely identify a location anywhere on the planet.
- Seismometer - An instrument that measures seismic waves or the movement of the ground.
- Hybrid - A term used to describe the result of creating something new having traits of all the objects from which it originated.
