Abstract

On Sept. 19th, 2021, a volcanic eruption began on the island of La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain). The pre-eruptive episode was characterized by seismicity and ground deformation that started only 9.5 days before the eruption. In this study, we applied seismic interferometry to the data recorded by six broadband seismic stations, allowing us to estimate velocity variations during the weeks preceding the eruption. About 9.5 days before the eruption, we observed a reduction in the seismic velocities is registered next to the eruptive centers that opened later. Furthermore, this zone overlaps with the epicenters of a cluster of volcano-tectonic earthquakes located at shallow depth (< 4 km) and detached from the main cluster of deeper seismicity. We interpret the decrease in seismic velocities and the occurrence of such a shallow earthquake cluster as the effect of hydrothermal fluid released by the ascending magma batch and reaching the surface faster than the magma itself.

Details

Title
Spatio-temporal velocity variations observed during the pre-eruptive episode of La Palma 2021 eruption inferred from ambient noise interferometry
Author
Cabrera-Pérez, Iván 1 ; D’Auria, Luca 2 ; Soubestre, Jean 3 ; Przeor, Monika 1 ; Barrancos, José 4 ; García-Hernández, Rubén 1 ; Ibáñez, Jesús M. 5 ; Koulakov, Ivan 6 ; van Dorth, David Martínez 1 ; Ortega, Víctor 1 ; Padilla, Germán D. 4 ; Sagiya, Takeshi 7 ; Pérez, Nemesio 2 

 Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias (INVOLCAN), Tenerife, Spain (GRID:grid.511653.5) 
 Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias (INVOLCAN), Tenerife, Spain (GRID:grid.511653.5); Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables (ITER), Tenerife, Spain (GRID:grid.425233.1) 
 Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, IRD, Univ. Gustave Eiffel, ISTerre, Grenoble, France (GRID:grid.461907.d); Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavík, Iceland (GRID:grid.424824.c) (ISNI:0000 0001 2362 8333) 
 Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables (ITER), Tenerife, Spain (GRID:grid.425233.1) 
 University of Granada, Department of Theoretical Physics and Cosmos, Science Faculty, Granada, Spain (GRID:grid.4489.1) (ISNI:0000000121678994); University of Granada, Andalusian Institute of Geophysiscs, Granada, Spain (GRID:grid.4489.1) (ISNI:0000000121678994) 
 Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia (GRID:grid.465309.d); Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia (GRID:grid.4605.7) (ISNI:0000000121896553); Institute of the Earth’s Crust SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia (GRID:grid.465343.3) (ISNI:0000 0004 0397 7466) 
 Nagoya University, Disaster Mitigation Research Center, Nagoya, Japan (GRID:grid.27476.30) (ISNI:0000 0001 0943 978X) 
Pages
12039
Publication year
2023
Publication date
2023
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2841687734
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2023. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.