[time-nuts] nuts about position (cheap receiver)
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Thu May 3 14:19:29 EDT 2018
kb8tq at n1k.org said:
> If you have a very good survey grade receiver and take a long enough data
> set, yes you can watch your location drift in some parts of the world. In
> most locations, fixes a few years apart would be a better bet.
I'm in Silicon Valley. The San Andreas fault is a few miles from here. A
map of the bay area will show a dozen major faults. A neighborhood map may
have several smaller lines.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/events/1906calif/virtualtour/bayarea
.php
The USGS has good GPS receivers sprinkled around the area. You can see
occasional
antenna domes on a post alongside the highway.
http://www.quake.geo.berkeley.edu/usgs-gps/
(Time sink warning.)
The fault moves about as fast as your fingernails grow, an inch per year.
That's one side relative to the other. I don't know how fast the pair is
moving.
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