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Borehole Strainmeters. Evelyn Roeloffs USGS. Topics. Cascadia Slow Slip Events as Seen on an Earthscope PBO borehole strainmeter Sacks- Evertson New Design Three-component borehole strainmeters installed 2011 . Cascadia Slow Slip: PBO BSM B004.
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Borehole Strainmeters Evelyn Roeloffs USGS
Topics • Cascadia Slow Slip Events as Seen on an Earthscope PBO borehole strainmeter • Sacks-Evertson New Design Three-component borehole strainmeters installed 2011
Seasonal variations are as large as the slow slip events... …but at B004, seasonal signals are common to all gauges, which allows them to be removed
Sacks-Evertson New Design 3-component Borehole Strainmeter • Horizontal cross-section • 3 “strain” channels are each total volume change in two opposite sensing chambers • Chambers have elliptical cross-section and are 3 meters long
Two Sacks-Evertson BSM’s Installed 2011 B947 “Valdez” near San Juan Bautista, 546’-556’ in hard sandstone/siltstone B948 “Gold Hill 3” near Parkfield, 493’-503’ in hard diorite/granodiorite with healed fractures