Section [06]
Ground in Motion
It has not stopped.
Entries
Three- Socorro magma bodyA large sheet of magma sits in the crust beneath Socorro, and the ground above it is measurably rising.
- SeismicityThe rift produces small earthquakes continuously, and the pattern of them maps the faults better than the surface does.
- GeodesyContinuous satellite positioning measures motion of a few millimetres a year, which is how the rate is actually known.