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What are creep meters?

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a tool used to predict earthquakes

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What is a creep meter?
It is a measurement device to determine if slow movement is taking place between two parts of an object. An example is two sides of a potential earthquake fault line or rocks on a cliff that may...
What does a creep meter measure?
horizontal movement. example: if you put a stake on each side of a fault you can se them separate if a earthquake hapens
How does a creep meter work?
What do creep meters look like?
it looks like this... Sorry it isn't a good picture but it was the best i could find.
What is creep in energy meter?
The Aluminium disc in energy meter continues to slowly rotate even if no current is supplied to the current coil . This rotation of the disc is known as creep .