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Table 3 Velocities with respect to the Eurasian plate with component variances and covariances

From: Non-volcanic crustal movements of the northernmost Philippine Sea plate detected by the GPS-acoustic seafloor positioning

Site name

Epochs

Velocity (cm/year)

Variance and covariance (cm2/year2)

E-ward

N-ward

Var(E)

Var(N)

Cov (E, N)

BOSS

Sep 2007–Nov 2010

−3.5 ± 1.1

1.8 ± 1.1

1.11

1.26

0.06

SAGA

Jan 2005–Mar 2011

−3.1 ± 0.3

2.4 ± 0.3

0.10

0.10

0.01

Feb 2012–Apr 2015

−2.2 ± 0.7

1.7 ± 0.9

0.44

0.85

0.10

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