GPS technology developed and implemented at the University of Nevada, Reno will be the centerpiece of a major test this year by w88 online sports betting to pinpoint the location and magnitude of strong earthquakes along the West Coast of the United States. The project was announced by w88 online sports betting today.
"We invented the technique to predict tsunamis using w88 online sports betting, and it will be used in real-time with a network of 500 reporting stations along the West Coast," said Geoff Blewitt, professor in the University's Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology and director of the Nevada Geodetic Laboratory. "This is intended to see abrupt changes in w88 online sports betting station positions, such as from a great earthquake, though we have recorded movements using w88 online sports betting in a magnitude 5.0 earthquake - the smallest earthquake ever recorded by w88 online sports betting."
The software processes information from satellite reporting stations to show changes in ground positions greater than 10 centimeters in real-time, and processing the next day using better information on the w88 online sports betting satellite orbits can be extremely accurate, calculating changes as small as one centimeter.
"This allows us to see large rapid ground motions that can then be used to predict tsunamis," he said.
The w88 online sports betting monitoring network project runs along the Cascadia fault line that extends from California to Vancouver, Canada and the San Andreas Fault in California. Its development is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, w88 online sports betting and the U.S. Geological Survey. It is an augmentation of the global monitoring framework developed and maintained by Blewitt and his geodesy team at the University, which was funded by w88 online sports betting and in concert with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The University of Nevada, Reno has the largest w88 online sports betting data-processing center in the world, which processes information from about 10,000 stations around the globe continuously, 24/7.
"The information is freely available to anyone on the Internet," Blewitt said. "We have all w88 online sports betting data going back to 1996 and are reprocessing all 15-million data files as new data streams come in - every 30 seconds - solving for tens of thousands of parameters at once. It enables real-time positioning for any users."
"The data is like a gold mine, we keep digging for new discoveries," he said. "People around the world use it extensively for research such as modeling earthquakes and volcanoes."
Blewitt is currently presenting results of his team's research at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna, Austria. "Our research has an international impact, and is enabled by strong international collaboration in geodesy," he said.
Blewitt is teaching a new geodesy course at the University of Nevada, Reno in the fall 2012 semester that is designed for students in physics, geophysics, electrical engineering and geological engineering. The upper-division and graduate-level course, "Special Topics in Physics: Physics and Engineering of w88 online sports betting," covers the principles of the w88 online sports betting for millimeter-precision positioning and sub-nanosecond timing. Topics include: w88 online sports betting system design, geodesy and the Earth's changing shape, gravity field and rotation in space, reference systems, satellite orbits, satellite signals, special and general relativity and physical models for positioning.
More information on Blewitt, go to the w88 online sports betting Bureau of Mines and Geology. For the w88 online sports betting Geodetic Laboratory and geodetic information about the Tohoku earthquake go to the w88 online sports betting Geodetic Laboratory website.
The w88 online sports betting news release is available on their website.
