A GPS Investigation of the Caribbean-North American Plate Boundary

小行星9316215 PI将参与一项合作研究计划，调查加勒比和北美板块的运动速度和方向，以及加勒比东北部的地质地形。 PI和合作者将重新占据1986年以前占据的位置，并分析他们的新数据，以确定在此期间的板块和微孔板运动。 通过这种方式，他们将获得有关板块运动的驱动力、局部大陆边缘的变化和相关的海平面变化、板块和微板块之间的应变分配、断层滑动速率以及主要断层带沿着的地震危险性的新信息。 ****

9316215 Jansma The PI will participate in a collaborative research program to investigate the rate and direction of motion of the Caribbean and North American plates, as well as the intervening geologic terrains in the northeast Caribbean. The PI and collaborators will reoccupy the sites previously occupied in 1986, and analyze their new data to determine plate and microplate motions during the intervening years. In this way they will obtain new information relating to the driving forces for plate motions, changes in local continental margins and associated sea-level changes, strain partitioning between the plates and microplates, fault slip rates, and seismic hazard along the major fault zones. ****