TY - JOUR A1 - Hensch, Martin A1 - Dahm, Torsten A1 - Ritter, Joachim A1 - Heimann, Sebastian A1 - Schmidt, Bernd A1 - Stange, Stefan A1 - Lehmann, Klaus T1 - Deep low-frequency earthquakes reveal ongoing magmatic recharge beneath Laacher See Volcano (Eifel, Germany) JF - Geophysical journal international N2 - The occurrence of deep low-frequency (DLF) microearthquakes beneath volcanoes is commonly attributed to mass transport in the volcanic plumbing system and used to infer feeding channels from and into magma reservoirs. The key question is how magmas migrate from depth to the shallow crust and whether magma reservoirs are currently being recharged. For the first time since the improvement of the local seismic networks in the East Eifel region (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany), we detect and locate recurrent DLF earthquakes in the lower crust and upper mantle beneath the Laacher See Volcano (LSV), using a joint data set of permanent sensors and a temporary deployment. So far, eight DLF earthquake sequences were observed in four distinct clusters between 10 and 40 km depth. These clusters of weak events (M-L< 2) align along an approximately 80. southeast dipping line south of the LSV. Moment tensor solutions of these events have large shear components, and the irregular dispersion and long coda of body waves indicate interaction processes between shear cracks and fluids. We find a rotation of P-axes orientation for shallow tectonic earthquakes compared to DLF events, indicating that the stress field in the depth interval of DLF events might favour a vertical migration of magma or magmatic fluids. The caldera of the LSV was formed by the last major eruption of the East Eifel Volcanic Field only 12.9 kyr ago, fed by a shallow magma chamber at 5-8 km depth and erupting a total magma volume of 6.7 km(3). The observed DLF earthquake activity and continuous volcanic gas emissions around the LSV indicate an active magmatic system, possibly connected with an upper mantle melt zone. KW - Waveform inversion KW - Volcano seismology KW - Magma migration and fragmentation KW - Volcano monitoring Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggy532 SN - 0956-540X SN - 1365-246X VL - 216 IS - 3 SP - 2025 EP - 2036 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hammer, Conny A1 - Ohrnberger, Matthias T1 - Forecasting seismo-volcanic activity by using the dynamical behavior of volcanic earthquake rates JF - Journal of volcanology and geothermal research N2 - We present a novel approach for short-term forecasting of volcano seismic activity. Volcanic earthquakes can be seen as a response mechanism of the earth crust to stresses induced by magma injection. From this point of view the temporal evolution of seismicity can be represented as a diffusion process which compensates pressure differences. By means of this dynamical approach we are able to estimate the system behavior in the near future which in turn allows us to forecast the evolution of the earthquake rate for the next time span from actual and past observations. For this purpose we model the earthquake rate as a random walk process embedded in a moving and deforming potential function. The center of the potential function is given by a moving average of the random walk's trace. We successfully apply this procedure to estimate the next day seismicity at Soufriere Hills volcano, Montserrat, over a time period of six years. When comparing the dynamical approach to the well known method of material failure forecast we find much better predictions of the critical stages of volcanic activity using the new approach. KW - Dynamic behavior KW - Earthquake rates KW - Seismo-volcanic activity KW - Volcano monitoring Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2012.01.016 SN - 0377-0273 VL - 229 IS - 11 SP - 34 EP - 43 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER -