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Monitoring very-long-period seismicity at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii

  1. Phillip B. Dawson1,
  2. M. C. Benítez2,
  3. Bernard A. Chouet1,
  4. David Wilson3,
  5. Paul G. Okubo3

Article first published online: 28 SEP 2010

DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044418

Issue

Geophysical Research Letters

Geophysical Research Letters

Volume 37, Issue 18, September 2010

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How to Cite

Dawson, P. B., M. C. Benítez, B. A. Chouet, D. Wilson, and P. G. Okubo (2010), Monitoring very-long-period seismicity at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L18306, doi:10.1029/2010GL044418.

Author Information

  1. 1

    U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California, USA

  2. 2

    Departamento de Teoría de la Señal Telemática y Comunicaciones, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

  3. 3

    Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, U.S. Geological Survey, Hawaii National Park, Hawaii, USA

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 28 SEP 2010
  2. Article first published online: 28 SEP 2010
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 12 AUG 2010
  4. Manuscript Revised: 23 JUL 2010
  5. Manuscript Received: 22 JUN 2010

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Keywords:

  • seismology;
  • volcanology;
  • monitoring

[1] On 19 March, 2008 eruptive activity returned to the summit of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii with the formation of a new vent within the Halemaumau pit crater. The new vent has been gradually increasing in size, and exhibiting sustained degassing and the episodic bursting of gas slugs at the surface of a lava pond ∼200 m below the floor of Halemaumau. The spectral characteristics, source location obtained by radial semblance, and Hidden Markov Model pattern recognition of the degassing burst signals are consistent with an increase in gas content in the magma transport system beginning in October, 2007. This increase plateaus between March – September 2008, and exhibits a fluctuating pattern until 31 January, 2010, suggesting that the release of gas is slowly diminishing over time.

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