GPS Investigation of the North America-Caribbean Plate Boundary

9316181国际和平研究所将参与一个合作研究计划，以调查加勒比海和北美板块的运动速度和方向，以及加勒比海东北部的中间地质地形。PI和合作者将重新占据1986年以前占据的地点，并分析他们的新数据，以确定在其间的几年中板块和微板块的运动。通过这种方式，他们将获得有关板块运动的驱动力、当地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、断层滑动速率以及沿主要断裂带的地震危险性的新信息。****

9316181 Mann 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. ****