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Fault Slip Sensors and DamageMap: GPS in Rapid Earthquake Response Systems Ken Hudnut USGS, Pasadena.

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1 Fault Slip Sensors and DamageMap: GPS in Rapid Earthquake Response Systems Ken Hudnut USGS, Pasadena

2 San Andreas fault  35 mm/yr slip rate;  >70% of plate motion  1685, 1857 eq’s  SoCal is now well ‘wired’  Likely source of most future ‘Big Ones’  Fault physics experiment  GPS/INS in near-field  ALSM & DG scan ‘net’  Great place to test EEW  Build “zipper” arrays  Cholame - Simmler  Coachella Valley

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4 Lone Juniper Ranch and Frazier Park High School First prototype GPS fault slip sensor; up to 10 Hz (Hudnut et al., 2002) Spans the San Andreas fault near Gorman, California

5 San Andreas - place two bets both ~120 km from Los Angeles (LA) Coachella Valley segment is ~60 km to San Bernardino

6 San Andreas - instrument major lifeline infrastructure crossings

7 Courtesy of Erdal Safak (USGS)

8 Factor Building at UCLA Prototype for DamageMap PI’s Erdal Safak, Monical Kohler and Paul Davis

9 Another technological advance for rapid earthquake information message delivery Cell phones with GPS open possibility of ‘smart’ SMS real-time warning targeted to at-risk mobile users (outdoors) or mobile platforms (e.g., while in their cars) [currently not feasible due to power requirements, if GPS is on all the time] Maps2ME FutureRoads

10 Summary  Slip sensor concept is to augment regional seismic coverage - one part of an overall EEW system that is primarily using a very different approach  Measure slip directly - don’t need to know anything else - ‘quick & easy’  High risk deployment strategy tuned to rare pay-off in extreme events  Robust earthquake early warning system design  obtain more accurate displacement observations  new instrumentation for dynamic and static displacement address deficiencies due to double-integration of accelerometer records  Same R&D effort as for DamageMap instrumentation - now under way with USGS Venture Capital and ANSS start-up funds, but major funding and long-term support for implementation has not yet been identified


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