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Insight into lava dome extrusion dynamics from seismic signatures of pyroclastic flows and incandescent rockfalls: Volcán de Colima, México, 1998–2017

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The seismic signals of pyroclastic flows and rockfalls of incandescent fragments of lava dome and flows (PFIRs), generated during the seven lava dome–building episodes of the 1998–2017 eruption at Volcán de Colima, México, are collated. Our article presents an overview of a series of published relationships between lava dome dynamics and PFIR seismic signatures. The eruption episodes were characterized by different patterns of magma discharge varying from 41 × 107 m3 during episode 1 to 2 × 107 m3 during episode 4. The durations of episodes varied from 10 months (episode 7) to 53 months (episode 4). Continuous seismic monitoring of the eruption collected about 200,000 seismic signals associated with PFIRs. Temporal variations in daily PFIR counts identified rockfalls during the initial filling of the crater with lava, the timing of when dome emplacement filled the crater and lava flows began, and cases of consecutive lava flow emplacement. Changes in the spectral parameters of PFIR seismic signals generated during endogenous and exogenous growth of the dome and during the sequence of sustained collapses of the lava dome may indicate the origin and type of successive flows. These results may serve as the basis for using PFIR seismic signals to reconstruct lava dome dynamics during real-time observations or for subsequent analysis.

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The comments of Executive Editor Andrew Harris, Associate Editor Michael James, and two anonymous reviewers helped us to improve the manuscript. Michael James provided an extremely helpful edits to our English text. The personnel of the seismic network RESCO and the personnel of the video network of Colima University provided the seismic records and video images of Volcán de Colima. Arnoldo Campos helped us with the acquisition of video images. The processing of digital seismic signals was realized using the program DEGTRA provided by Mario Ordaz, UNAM, and the Interactive MATLAB software Seismo_volcanalysis for the analysis of seismic volcanic signals prepared by Philippe Lesage (Lesage 2009) and adapted by Miguel Gonzalez.

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Zobin, V.M., Navarro, C. & Tellez, A. Insight into lava dome extrusion dynamics from seismic signatures of pyroclastic flows and incandescent rockfalls: Volcán de Colima, México, 1998–2017. Bull Volcanol 83, 44 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-021-01463-2

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