We analyzed seismicity linked to the 2014 phreatic eruption of Mount Ontake, Japan, on 27 September 2014. We first relocated shallow volcano tectonic (VT) earthquakes and long-period (LP) events from August to September 2014. By applying a matched-filter technique to continuous waveforms using these relocated earthquakes, we detected numerous additional micro-earthquakes beneath the craters. The relocated VT earthquakes aligned on a near-vertical plane oriented NNW-SSE, suggesting they occurred around a conduit related to the intrusion of magmatic-hydrothermal fluids into the craters. The frequency of VT earthquakes gradually increased from 6 September 2014 and reached a peak on 11 September 2014. After the peak, seismicity levels remained elevated until the eruption. b-values gradually increased from 1.2 to 1.7 from 11 to 16 September 2014 then declined gradually and dropped to 0.8 just before the eruption. During the 10-min period immediately preceding the phreatic eruption, VT earthquakes migrated in the up-dip direction as well as laterally along the NNW-SSE feature. The migrating seismicity coincided with an accelerated increase of pre-eruptive tremor amplitude and with an anomalous tiltmeter signal that indicated summit upheaval. Therefore, the migrating seismicity suggests that the vertical conduit was filled with pressurized fluids, which rapidly propagated to the surface during the final 10 min before the eruption.
A large earthquake (Mw 7.7) occurred on 16 April 2016 within the source region of the 1906 earthquake in the Ecuador‐Colombia subduction zone. The 1906 event has been interpreted as a megathrust earthquake (Mw 8.8) that ruptured the source regions of smaller earthquakes in 1942, 1958, and 1979 in this subduction. Our seismic analysis indicated that the spatial distribution of the 2016 earthquake and its aftershocks correlated with patches of high interplate coupling strength and was similar to those of the 1942 earthquake and its aftershocks, suggesting that the 2016 and 1942 earthquakes ruptured the same asperity. Our analysis of tsunami waveforms of the 1906 event indicated Mw around 8.4 and showed that large slip occurred near the trench off the source regions of the above three historical and the 2016 earthquakes, suggesting that a depth‐dependent complex rupture mode exists along this subduction zone.
S U M M A R YA new waveform inversion method is proposed to deal with horizontal seismograms strongly contaminated by tilt signals, without assumptions regarding tilt motions. Instead of decomposing the horizontal seismograms into translational and tilt contributions, we realize this task by calculating the Green's functions consisting of not only the seismometer's response to the synthetic translational motions but also to the synthetic tilt motions. A finite difference method (FDM), which uses a staggered grid and a perfect matched layer (PML) boundary condition, is used to calculate the Green's functions. This method enables calculation of wavefields which have wavelengths of up to 10 times larger than the dimension of the computational grid. Although reflected waves from the numerical boundaries are negligible, comparisons with analytical solutions evidence errors of up to several per cent. These occur either because the source-to-receiver distance is small once compared to the grid size, or as a consequence of the half-cell difference between the actual free surface and the station location. In addition, in the case that the free surface is not flat, an error of up to 60 per cent occurs in calculating the tilt motion, due to the stair-like approximation of topography in the FDM. This latter error can be reduced to 10 per cent by averaging the tilts at five adjacent cells aligned in the direction of the tilt component, centred on the target grid cell. By applying this algorithm, a waveform inversion can be used to successfully reconstruct the vertical and horizontal seismograms of very-long-period (10-30 s) pulses at Asama Volcano, central Japan, despite the fact that the horizontal seismograms are strongly contaminated by tilt signals.
[1] Multiple volcanic observations conducted at Mt. Asama, Japan, provide evidence of a link between single very-longperiod (VLP) seismic pulses and volcanic gas emissions. SO 2 flux measurements were conducted on 2 June 2009, when Mt. Asama was producing ash-free eruptions with VLP pulses. Gas bursts from a vent at the crater bottom following the VLP pulses provided an excellent opportunity to examine the relation directly. The SO 2 emission for each eruption was calculated by integrating high temporal SO 2 flux data obtained by the SO 2 imaging system and subtracting the contribution from quiescent degassing from fumaroles around the crater bottom. A seismic moment of VLP pulse was estimated by the waveform inversion. We observed seven eruptions and obtained the proportional relation between VLP pulse moment and SO 2 emission. The relation determined is consistent with the VLP source model; these observational results are the first report of a quantitative comparison between single VLP pulse moment and volcanic gas emission. Citation: Kazahaya, R., T. Mori, M. Takeo, T. Ohminato, T. Urabe, and Y. Maeda (2011), Relation between single verylong-period pulses and volcanic gas emissions at Mt. Asama, Japan, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L11307,
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