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Tiltmeter

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Tiltmeter meaning

An instrument designed to measure very small changes from the horizontal level.

Example sentences (3)

USGS: “Graph of tilting at Uēkahuna bluff—at the summit of Kīlauea—in a direction toward and away from Halemʻaumʻau, collected by a water tube tiltmeter (black) and an electronic tiltmeter (grey).

USGS photo shows a tiltmeter casing on the south flank of Kīlauea volcano flooded with water.

Deformation at the summit as measured by tiltmeter and GPS instruments slowed and virtually stopped between August 4 and 5. This view of Halema‘uma‘u is toward the southeast.