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Preliminary Results from a Field Experiment on Volcanic Events at Kilauea Using an Array of Digital Seismographs

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Volcanic Seismology

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We carried out a field experiment at Kilauea Volcano for two months in 1988, during which the volcano was active and generated gas-piston events, long-period events and tremors. Six three-component digital instruments recorded 200 h of useful signal and 12 GEOS 6-channel recorders collected more than 200 events with a total amount of information of about 10 gigabits. Preliminary analyses of the data revealed that seismic spectra of all these volcanic events show many narrow spectral peaks, and we were able to establish that these peaks are not due to propagation path or recording site effect but due to source effect. We also found that, the movement of gas bubbles plays an important role in the excitation of gas-piston events, and possibly also long-period events because of the similarity in spectral feature between them. We propose preliminary source models for gas-piston events, long-period events and volcanic tremor based on fluid-gas filled crack models, and discuss outstanding problems with these models.

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  1. Dipartimento di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Università di Napoli Federico II, Largo San Marcellino 10, I-80138, Napoli, Italy

    Professor Paolo Gasparini

  2. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università Degli Studi dell’Aquila, Via Vetoio, I-67010, Coppito (L’Aquila), Italy

    Professor Roberto Scarpa

  3. Department of Geological Sciences, University of Southern California, 3651 University Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90089-1740, USA

    Professor Keiiti Aki

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  1. Dipartimento di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Università di Napoli Federico II, Largo San Marcellino 10, I-80138, Napoli, Italy

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  2. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università Degli Studi dell’Aquila, Via Vetoio, I-67010, Coppito (L’Aquila), Italy

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Gasparini, P., Scarpa, R., Aki, K. (1992). Preliminary Results from a Field Experiment on Volcanic Events at Kilauea Using an Array of Digital Seismographs. In: Gasparini, P., Scarpa, R., Aki, K. (eds) Volcanic Seismology. IAVCEI Proceedings in Volcanology, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77008-1_13

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