Linking magma transport structures at Kīlauea volcano
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Abstract
Identifying magma pathways is important for understanding and interpreting volcanic signals. At Kīlauea volcano, seismicity illuminates subsurface plumbing, but the broad spectrum of seismic phenomena hampers event identification. Discrete, long-period events (LPs) dominate the shallow (5-10 km) plumbing, and deep (40+ km) tremor has been observed offshore. However, our inability to routinely identify these events limits their utility in tracking ascending magma. Using envelope cross-correlation, we systematically catalog non-earthquake seismicity between 2008-2014. We find the LPs and deep tremor are spatially distinct, separated by the 15-25 km deep, horizontal mantle fault zone (MFZ). Our search corroborates previous observations, but we find broader-band (0.5-20 Hz) tremor comprising collocated earthquakes and reinterpret the deep tremor as earthquake swarms in a volume surrounding and responding to magma intruding from the mantle plume beneath the MFZ. We propose the overlying MFZ promotes lateral magma transport, linking this deep intrusion with Kīlauea’s shallow magma plumbing.
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| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Linking magma transport structures at Kīlauea volcano |
| Series title | Geophysical Research Letters |
| DOI | 10.1002/2015GL064869 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 17 |
| Year Published | 2015 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | American Geophysical Union |
| Contributing office(s) | Volcano Science Center |
| Description | 8 p. |
| First page | 7090 |
| Last page | 7097 |
| Country | United States |
| State | Hawaii |
| Other Geospatial | Kilauea volcano |
| Online Only (Y/N) | N |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |
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