Seismic and infrasonic evidences for an impulsive source of the shallow volcanic tremor at Mt. Etna, Italy

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Mar 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001georl..28.1071r&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 28, Issue 6, p. 1071-1074

Computer Science

Sound

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Seismology: Volcano Seismology, Volcanology, Volcanology: Eruption Monitoring, Volcanology: Instruments And Techniques

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During a seismo-acoustic experiment we recorded volcanic tremor around the summit craters of Mt. Etna volcano. Tremor shows amplitude modulation, which disappear ~900 m from the crater area. The infrasonic wavefield is coherent even at distances of ~750 m. Time delay between infrasonic transient is stable around 1.3 s and is consistent with the position of the source in the Voragine crater. Amplitude modulation of tremor is well correlated (0.72) with infrasound amplitude with a time lag of 0.37 s, coherent with a shallow position of the source. Amplitude of volcanic tremor decays over increasing distances according to geometrical spreading of body waves. Tremor wavefield shows a linear polarization following the same time occurrence as the infrasonic pulses. Polarization azimuth indicates that wavefield rectilinearity is mostly due to P-waves. We infer that most of the volcanic tremor we recorded at Mt. Etna is generated by superimposition of small impulsive sources acting at 1-2 s rate caused by pressure instability during magma degassing.

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