Seismic Expression of Magma-Induced Crustal Strains and Localized Fluid Pressures during Initial Eruptive Stages, Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-2010
Keywords
volcano-tectonic, location, Montserrat, seismicity
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1029/2010GL043997
Abstract
We explore volcanotectonic earthquake activity during the early stages of volcanic activity (1995–96) at Soufrière Hills volcano. We focus on several zones of temporally-confined seismic activity that comprise assemblages of small scale structural elements, >2–4 km distant from the volcano, at depths 2–4 km below sea level, and consider seismicity in relation to regional tectonics and heterogeneity of stiffness and strength as revealed by the SEA-CALIPSO tomography experiment. The clustered seismicity and relatively aseismic zones are interpreted to reflect a broad weakened tectonic zone of ESE trend that crosses Montserrat, and the ascent of a magmatic dike of NNE trend, which altered the stress distribution to promote localized fault movements and caused localized dilatation with changes in pore-fluid pressures, to either weaken or strengthen the rock mass depending on the local polarity of strain.
Rights Information
Was this content written or created while at USF?
No
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Geophysical Research Letters, v. 37, issue 19, art. L00E21
Scholar Commons Citation
Miller, V.; Voight, B.; Ammon, C. J.; Shalev, E.; and Thompson, Glenn, "Seismic Expression of Magma-Induced Crustal Strains and Localized Fluid Pressures during Initial Eruptive Stages, Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat" (2010). School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications. 893.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/geo_facpub/893
