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Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 15:15:13 -0700
From: "Brian O'Shea" <boshea@ricochet.net>
To: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
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On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 10:15:28PM +0200, Alexander Langer wrote:
> Thus spake Brooks Davis (brooks@one-eyed-alien.net):
> 
> > feature.  He mounts them on buildings around SoCal with dataloggers to
> > determine building movement due to earthquakes and general plate
> > movement.
> 
> 2-3 mm is exact enough for this?

Even with SA, much more accurate numbers could be obtained by averaging
several measurements.  I think that the speed at which the earth's
plates move is slow enough to get a good average measurement (except
during an earthquake, of course!).

-brian

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