1. S-wave modelling of the Showa-Shinzan lava dome in Usu Volcano, Northern Japan, from seismic observations.
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Takeo, Akiko, Nishida, Kiwamu, Aoyama, Hiroshi, Ishise, Motoko, Kai, Takeru, Kurihara, Ryo, Maeda, Takuto, Mizutani, Yuta, Nakashima, Yuki, Nagahara, Shogo, Wang, Xiaowen, Ye, Lingling, Akuhara, Takeshi, and Aoki, Yosuke
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LAVA domes ,SHEAR waves ,VOLCANOES ,RAYLEIGH waves ,PHASE velocity - Abstract
To obtain an internal S -wave velocity structure, we conducted a passive seismic campaign with 21 1-Hz seismometers on and around the Showa-Shinzan lava dome, which emerged during the 1943–1945 eruption of Usu Volcano, Japan. Before the campaign, we calibrated seismometers and found slight phase-response differences between seismometers of less than 1–2°. After the campaign, we extracted seismic wavefield by taking cross-correlations of vertical-component ambient noise records between seismic sites. We developed a new method to measure phase velocities of the Rayleigh wave automatically by assuming layered structure and finally obtained 1-D S -wave velocity models in summit, roof and base regions. The obtained S -wave velocity right beneath the intruded lava dome is higher than that in surrounding areas by a few tens of per cent down to a few hundred metres below sea level, indicating narrow but deep existence of the root of the lava dome. The obtained S -wave velocity at depths shallower than ∼50 m inside the lava dome in the summit area was ∼1 km s
−1 , significantly lower than that predicted from the density of 2.3 × 103 kg m−3 estimated in previous muon-radiography studies and a conventional scaling, indicating the effect of cracking in the lava dome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2022
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