WKR1
Work Ranch creepmeter

Has "CalTech" style electronics

Note that archive have data only from 1977 forward

2004 Parkfield (Sept 28)  'pegged' the creepmeter;
loosen wire at creepmeter and let 29 mm of wire slide
to get a micrometer measurement of 22.4mm

For the field visits on Nov 15 2004 and Jan 3, 2005, noted
that the voltage to the transducer (a potentiometer) was
110 mv; it should be 100mv but was not adjusted. Prior
field visits had measured voltages at approximately 100 mv (+/-
1 mv);  Consequently, I adjusted the scale factor by 0.909
for data between Nov 1, 2004 and Feb 1 2005; This better reconciled
the telemetried data and the micrometer measurements. Hopefully,
the next field visit will include adjusting the voltage to the
transducer.  

November 2006; DCP was swapped out for new one; electronics
remain the same as output is 0 to 1 volt. Scale factor change of
ratio 1000/409.6

Scale factor is now 271 counts(mv) per mm 
fault slip (creep).

 
          General Notes:
    FAULT CREEP DATA FROM PARKFIELD

The following data represent real-time measurments of fault slip across
the San Andreas fault or its "south-west" trace near Parkfield, CA.
Creepmeters consists of 2 piers separated by about 30 meters and
connected by an invar wire.  The main fault-trace lies between the 2
piers.  The wire is at roughly a 30 degree angle from the local trace
of the fault. A displacement tranducer measures the change in length of
the wire (or the change in distance between the piers). These
measurements are made once every 10 minutes and are telemetred to Menlo
Park. In addition, micrometer measurements are periodically made by
"hand". The telemetred creep data are reconciled with the micrometer
measurements. The data have been reconciled with the
micrometer measurements and then decimated to daily measurements and
scaled to represent fault slip in mm. 

The data provided here has been processed such that telemetry
glitches have been removed, data edited for electronic and other
problems, offsets due to resets of the instrument have been removed,
and the telemetried data have been reconciled with the Micrometer
measurements.

Please note that when computing secular rates and other statistics that
the assumption of data independence (ie gaussian distributed data) is
NOT correct. For starters, the statistics of the data are a mixture of
random-walk and white (gaussian) noise.  You'll need to construct the
appropriate data covariance matrix to account for these noise sources.
Otherwise, if you let your standard least squares routine compute the
secular rate and its standard error, that error bar will most likely be
too small relative to the true estimate of standard error.

Because the pier are installed at shallow depths (2-3 meters), these
piers will tilt in responce to rainfall. ONE NEEDS TO EXAMINE RAINFALL
RECORDS WHEN INTERPRETING THESE CREEP MEASUREMENTS. 

Many people have contributed to this project including:
Robert Burford
Sandy Schultz
Kate Breckinridge
Rich Liechti

For questions, contact John Langbein (langbein@usgs.gov)
  or Andy Snyder (asnyder@usgs.gov)