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139: 44:. PBO construction (an NSF MREFC) took place from October 2003 through September 2008. Phase 1 of operations and maintenance concluded in September 2013. Phase 2 of operations ended in September 2018, along with the end of the EarthScope project. In October 2018, PBO was assimilated into a broader Network of the Americas (NOTA), along with networks in Mexico ( 75:
The PBO GPS network included 1100 stations extending from the Aleutian Islands south to Baja and eastward across the continental United States. During the construction phase, 891 permanent and continuously operating GPS stations were installed, and another 209 existing stations were integrated (PBO
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Data from the PBO was, and NOTA data continue to be, transmitted to the GAGE Facility, operated by EarthScope Consortium, to the data center where it is collected, archived and distributed. These data sets continue to be freely and openly available to the public, with equal access provided for all
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PBO precisely measured Earth deformation resulting from the constant motion of the Pacific and North American tectonic plates in the western United States. These Earth movements can be very small and incremental and not felt by people, or they can be very large and sudden, such as those that occur
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users. PBO data includes the raw data collected from each instrument, quality-checked data in formats commonly used by PBO's various user communities, and processed data such as calibrated time series, velocity fields, and error estimates.
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during earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The high-precision instrumentation of the PBO enabled detection of motions to a sub-centimeter level. PBO measured Earth deformation through a network of instrumentation including: high precision
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Facility. EarthScope was an earth science program that explored the 4-dimensional structure of the North American Continent. EarthScope (and PBO) was a 15-year project (2003-2018) funded by the
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Nucleus stations) into the network. Geodetic imaging data was transmitted, often in realtime, from a wide network of
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Williams, M.L., K.M. Fische r, J.T. Freymuelle r, B. Tikoff, A.M. T réhu; et al. (February 2010).
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Unlocking the Secrets of the North American Continent: An EarthScope Science Plan for 2010-2020
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Some scientific questions that addressed by the EarthScope project and the PBO data include:
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stations, augmented by seismometers, strainmeters and tiltmeters, complemented by InSAR (
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An EarthScope GPS sensor, a component of the Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) system.
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The GPS stations were categorized into clusters. The transform cluster was near the
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generated? How does it travel from the mantle to reach the surface?
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Geodetic Facility for the Advancement of Geosciences (GAGE)
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Index

Plate Boundary Observatory PBO
EarthScope
National Science Foundation
NASA
TLALOCNet
COCONet
Geodetic Facility for the Advancement of Geosciences (GAGE)
Global Positioning System
seismometers
tiltmeters
GPS
interferometric synthetic aperture radar
LiDAR
geochronology
San Andreas Fault
California
Cascadia subduction zone
Oregon
Washington
British Columbia
Basin and Range
Yellowstone caldera
Long Valley caldera
Cascade volcanoes

earthquakes
continent
geologic
faults
mountain ranges

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