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Coda wave interferometry and correlation study using multiplets in the Katla volcano, 2011 and 2012 |
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Kristín Jonsdottir, Kristin Vogfjörð, Chris Bean |
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EGU General Assembly 2013
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Englisch
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In: GRA - Volume 15 (2013) |
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250083491
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The Katla volcano, a glacier overlain hyaloclastite massive in S-Iceland, is one of the most active and hazardous volcanoes in Iceland. Its ice filled oval caldera, 9x14 km in diameter, forms a glacier plateau surrounded by higher rims. The glacier surface is marked with about a dozen circular depressions or cauldrons, manifestations of shallow geothermal activity. Katla eruptions are usually accompanied by intense tephra fall and hazardous glacial floods, jökulhlaups. Since year 1179, there are 17 documented eruptions, on average every decennia (±40 years), the last one being in 1918. Thus, the Katla volcano is being closely watched.
The SIL seismic catalogue for 2011 and 2012 includes over 4000 events within the Katla volcano. By far the most events occur in the steep western part of the glacier and have been shown to be caused by shallow glacial processes. These events are easily recognized in the data due to their low frequency content (0.5-2 hz) and long surface wave coda. The second most common events are found around the glacial cauldrons and seem to be caused by very shallow processes probably involving glacial deformation and changes in the geothermal activity. Tectonic events within the massive are not as common. In fact, the low rate of tectonic events recorded in Katla during the past two years, as well as their small size (
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