Bulletin of Volcanology

, Volume 70, Issue 9, pp 1113–1121 | Cite as

Possible interaction between tectonic events and seismic noise at Las Cañadas Volcanic Caldera, Tenerife, Spain

  • Roberto Carniel
  • Marta Tárraga
  • Fausto Barazza
  • Alicia García
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Abstract

Continuous seismic noise is recorded in the volcanic island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). The origin of this noise, strongly augmented by anthropogenic contamination, is still under debate. In this paper, we discuss the relationship between this noise and the occurrence of local tectonic events in the same area. In particular, transitions are sought in the time evolution of dynamic parameters computed on the seismic noise, and examples are shown where abrupt transitions may be associated with the occurrence of tectonic events. These transitions provide further evidence of the existence of a natural origin for at least part of the seismic noise, which is strongly contaminated—if not dominated—by anthropogenic sources.

Keywords

Dynamical analysis Tenerife Las Cañadas Teide Seismic noise Volcanic Hazard Transitions 
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Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank J. Martí, O. Jaquet, P. Malisan, J. Vila, M. J. Blanco, G. Helffrich, the associate editor M. Ripepe, S. De Angelis and anonymous referees for useful discussions and comments. The CSIC-MNCN research group in Madrid coordinated by R. Ortiz, the seismology research group in Udine coordinated by M. Riuscetti and the functional mechanics research group in Udine coordinated by P. Pascolo are acknowledged for financial, scientific and logistic support. This work was carried out under the framework of the projects TEGETEIDE (Spain, CGL2004-21643-E), TEIDEVS (Spain, CGL2004-05744), INGV-DPC V4 “Conception, verification, and application of innovative techniques to study active volcanoes” (Italy) and PRIN 2004131177 “Numerical and graphical methods for the analysis of time series data” (Italy).

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Roberto Carniel
    • 1
  • Marta Tárraga
    • 2
  • Fausto Barazza
    • 1
  • Alicia García
    • 2
  1. 1.Dipartimento di Georisorse e TerritorioUniversità di UdineUdineItaly
  2. 2.Departamento de VolcanologíaMuseo Nacional de Ciencias NaturalesMadridSpain

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