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on temporary sites that marched across the conterminous United States. The initial deployment, in August 2007, was in the western quarter of the United States. Since then the stations on the western edge were regularly relocated to the eastern edge at a rate of about four stations per week. The
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observations made on the Earth's surface to help determine the geologic history of North America, as well as to better understand that geologic processes that are at work today.
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was an additional 100+ permanent stations located on approximately 300 km spacings that provided a long-term reference frame. These also augmented the USGS
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Transportable Array reached the East Coast in 2013, and wound up in 2017, having occupied nearly 2000 sites. An archive of stations are listed online.
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Geological structures can be mapped by observing how they affect seismic waves from local and distant earthquakes, a process known as
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was a pool of portable seismic instruments available for short-term high-density observations of particular areas of interest.
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Facility Data Services, operated by EarthScope Consortium (previously known as the IRIS Data Management Center).
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Kerr, Richard (14 June 2013). "Geophysical Exploration Linking Deep Earth and Backyard Geology".
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measured naturally occurring electric and magnetic fields. It consisted of seven permanent
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US earth science project collecting seismic images of the North American lithosphere
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and were constructed, operated, and maintained as a collaborative effort with
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Seismological observatories, organisations and projects
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Data from these instruments are available from the NSF
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Index

USARRAY
Earthscope
Plate Boundary Observatory
San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth
National Science Foundation
UNAVCO
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Stanford University
seismic
lithosphere
geologic
seismographs
seismic tomography
lithosphere
Advanced National Seismic System
magnetotelluric
SAGE
Array Network Facility


"USArray"
doi
10.1126/science.340.6138.1283
PMID
23766309
Meltzer, Anne
Rudnick, Roberta
"USArray Initiative"
Category
Seismological observatories, organisations and projects

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