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- noun An
instrument designed to measure very small changes from thehorizontal level
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Slight changes in the slope of the volcano's flanks, as measured by a device called a tiltmeter, would suggest that gases were continuing to build up below as they bubbled out of the magma, causing the surface to bulge, or were dissipating.
NYT > Home Page By HENRY FOUNTAIN 2010
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Slight changes in the slope of the volcano's flanks, as measured by a device called a tiltmeter, would suggest that gases were continuing to build up below as they bubbled out of the magma, causing the surface to bulge, or were dissipating.
NYT > Home Page By HENRY FOUNTAIN 2010
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Slight changes in the slope of the volcano's flanks, as measured by a device called a tiltmeter, would suggest that gases were continuing to build up below as they bubbled out of the magma, causing the surface to bulge, or were dissipating.
NYT > Home Page By HENRY FOUNTAIN 2010
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Geological sciences Professor Roger Bilham has studied tectonic activity in Italy and recently installed a seismic instrument known as a tiltmeter about 125 miles south of L'Aquila, which is located in the mountainous Abruzzo region east of Rome.
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Aside from the primitive roads and the occasional seismometer or tiltmeter, there is no sign of human habitation.
Archive 2006-10-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006
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Aside from the primitive roads and the occasional seismometer or tiltmeter, there is no sign of human habitation.
The Rift Walter Jon Williams 2006
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(Eric the Viking) @Jon where are you getting your info, do you have access to some tiltmeter data/dilation data, etc .. can you share the links (or repost them) @robert somerville, I don't have anything like that.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Erik Klemetti none@example.com 2010
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The GPS network, which is less sensitive than the tiltmeter network, recorded about 1 cm of contraction over the last 3 months and switched to extension and contraction mimicking the tilt in early January; the summit is currently extending.
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The summit tiltmeter network continued to record DI inflation already exceeding the amount of DI deflation and still increasing.
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(Eric the Viking) @Jon where are you getting your info, do you have access to some tiltmeter data/dilation data, etc .. can you share the links (or repost them) @robert somerville, I don't have anything like that.
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