Video surveillance recordings and seismic activity of Mt Erebus: 1986-1991, The International Mt Erebus Eruption Mechanism Study (IMEEMS)
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K044_1986_1991_NZ_1
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Summary
Abstract:
Studies of the location of earthquake foci at Mt Erebus found that eruption earthquakes had an apparent range of depths to 4km, but that infrasonic signals were more consistant with a surface origin. Although a possible explanation was time error in picking emergent seismic onsets, and inaccurate modelling of velocity structure, a more attractive option was the triggering of eruptions in the vents ... by earthquakes at depth. The International Mt Erebus Eruption Mechanism Study (IMEEMS) was initiated to find if the earthquake origin times were earlier than or equal to the times of visible eruption, as required by the triggering hypothesis, using video recordings of eruptions with accurate time display.
The aim was to collect digital and video data on families of explosion earthquakes for the velocity modelling of the volcano and its magma column. TV surveillance equipment and an LPH geophone was added to an existing seismic telemetry net to compare the onset times of signals for each eruption. Each season, TV surveillance equipment was maintained and surveillance initiated, and infrasonic microphones and long period seismographs were serviced. Eruptions were video taped and the recordings from the seismic net were played back and analysed for the eruptions seen to eject bombs. A digital seismic event recording sysem was installed November 25, 1988 using a PC computer based system in parallel with the analoge tape recorder. Changes in the temperature of the crater walls and lava lake was measured with infrared temperature measurements each year.
Overall this project covered the distribution in space and time of volcanic earthquakes, explosion earthquakes, tectonic earthquakes, earthquake swarms and tremors, explosion infrasonic waves, magnetic induction signals from eruptions, infrared temperatures, eruption velocities and volumes of lava bombs, and the velocity structure of the erupting magma columns. A pilot seismic refraction survey was made on the summit cone of Mt Erebus in 1989-1990 along a 200m line between the upper hut and Nausea Knob. Two seismic lines were recorded 180, and 330m long for shallow velocity data. The seismic source was sledge hammer blows for the 180m line and 1.5m lengths of detonating cord laid on the surface for the 330m line. In the following season, to eliminate the possibility that the observed delay to seismic waves from strombolian explosions was caused by thick and/or very low velocity layers under the recording stations on the flanks of the volcano, a seismic refraction line was run between the warm ground in the Side Crater and the somma rim at the edge of the summit plateau. 
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Description:
The IMEEMS study was a continuation of the previous IMEES study. The metadata for the IMEES study is at this link.
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Geographic Coverage
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Spatial coordinates
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N: -77.53
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S: -77.53
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E: 167.17
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W: 167.17
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Min Altitude:
3500
Max Altitude:
4020
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Temporal Coverage
Start Date:
1986-11-01
Stop Date:
1991-01-01
Quality
The international investigation of the Mt Erebus crater included investigations from several different scientists and organisations (Victoria University of Wellington, NSF and NIPR).
The data is covered well in the publications. All of the 220 VHS videotapes, the digital seismic records for 1986 to 1990 and the digital seismic records that were added by Victoria University of ... Wellington and ran in parallel with NIPR's analog seismograph and continued as part of the Erebus Volcanological Observatory (EVO) up to 2000 are are held by GNS Science at:
Wairakei Research Centre
Private Bag 2000
Taupo 3352
New Zealand
For more information, please contact either:
Brad Scott (B.Scott@gns.cri.nz)
ph: +64 07 376 0151
Fax:+64 07 374 8199
OR
Chris Benny (C.Benny@gns.cri.nz)
ph: +64 07 376 0157
Fax:+64 07 374 8199
Data Set Progress
COMPLETE
Personnel
Role:
INVESTIGATOR
Email:
r.dibble at actrix.co.nz
Role:
INVESTIGATOR
Phone:
505 835-5995
Fax:
505 835-6436
Email:
kyle at nmt.edu
Contact Address:
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
801 Leroy Place
City:
Socorro
Province or State:
NM
Postal Code:
87801-4796
Country:
USA
Role:
TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone:
+64 07 376 0151
Fax:
+64 07 374 8199
Email:
B.Scott at gns.cri.nz
Contact Address:
Wairakei Research Centre
Private Bag 2000
City:
Taupo
Postal Code:
3352
Country:
New Zealand
Role:
TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone:
+64 07 376 0157
Fax:
+64 07 374 8199
Email:
C.Benny at gns.cri.nz
Contact Address:
Wairakei Research Centre
Private Bag 2000
City:
Taupo
Postal Code:
3352
Country:
New Zealand
Role:
DIF AUTHOR
Phone:
+64 3 358 0200
Fax:
+64 3 358 0211
Email:
c.poirot at antarcticanz.govt.nz
Contact Address:
Antarctica New Zealand
Private Bag 4745
City:
Christchurch
Country:
New Zealand
Role:
DIF AUTHOR
Phone:
+64 3 358 0200
Fax:
+64 3 358 0211
Email:
s.gordon at antarcticanz.govt.nz
Contact Address:
Antarctica New Zealand
Private Bag 4745
City:
Christchurch
Country:
New Zealand
Publications/References
Dibble, R.R. Infrasonic recordings of Strombolian eruptions of Erebus, Antarctica, March-December 1984, covering the jump in activity on 13 September 1984. in: Volcanic hazards.Latter J.H. (ed) Berlin: Springer-Verlag. 1989. pp.536-553 [IAVCEI proceedings in volcanology: 1] Dibble, R.R. Barrett, S.I.D. Kaminuma, K. Miura, S. Kienle, J. Rowe, C.A. Kyle, P.A. McIntosh, ... W.C.Time comparisons between video and seismic signals from explosions in the lava lake of Erebus Volcano, Antarctica. Bulletin of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University 38: 147-161, 1988.
Dibble, R.R. O’Brien, B. Rowe, C.A. The velocity structure of Mount Erebus, Antarctica, and its lava lake.in: Volcanological and environmental studies of Mount Erebus, Antarctica.Kyle P.R. (ed) Washington: American Geophysical Union. 1994. pp.1-16 [Antarctic research series: 66] ISBN 0875908756
Dibble, R.R. 1994. Velocity modelling in the erupting magma column of Mount Erebus, Antarctica. In Kyle, P.R. (Ed.). Volcanological and environmental studies of Mount Erebus, Antarctica. American Geophysical Union Antarctic Research Series 66: 17-34.
Dibble, R.R., Kyle, P.R. Rowe, C.A. 2008. Video and seismic observations of strombolian eruptions at Erebus Volcano, Antarctica. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 177: 619-634.
Dibble, R.R. Kyle, P.R. Skov, M.J. Volcanic activity and seismicity of Mount Erebus, 1986-1994. Antarctic journal of the United States 29(5): 11-14, 1994.
Dibble, R.R. 1990. Mount Erebus - The High Island. In: Hatherton, T. (Ed.) Antarctica: The Ross Sea Region. Publ. DSIR Wellington, Information Series 165: 77-84.
Kaminuma, K. Dibble, R.R. An eruption process of Mount Erebus, Antarctica. in: Proceedings of the Kagoshima International Conference on Volcanoes, 1988. Tokyo: National Institute for Research Advancement. 1988. pp.66-70
Kaminuma, K. Activities of Japanese earth science research in the 1986-1987 season. Antarctic record 31(2): 155-162, 1987.
Kaminuma, K. Dibble, R.R. Geophysical studies of Mount Erebus, Antarctica. in: Proceedings of the Kagoshima International Conference on Volcanoes, 1988. Tokyo: National Institute for Research Advancement. 1988. pp.242-245
Kaminuma, K. Miura, S. Dibble, R.R. A process of Mount Erebus eruption. Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Antarctic Geosciences 2: 7-16, 1988.
Kaminuma, K. International Mount Erebus Eruption Mechanism Study in 1988-1989. Antarctic record 33(3): 430-435, 1989.
Kaminuma, K. Murakami, K. Seismic activity of Mount Erebus in 1987. Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Antarctic Geosciences 3: 13-19, 1989.
Kaminuma, K. Dibble, R.R. Seismicity of Erebus volcano, Antarctica. in: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Antarctic Research. Tianjin: China Ocean Press. 1989. pp.168-176
Kaminuma, K. Dibble, R.R. Seismic activity of Mount Erebus in 1981-1988. Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Antarctic Geosciences 4: 142-148, 1990.
Kaminuma, K. Shibuya, K. The structure and seismic activity of Mount Erebus, Ross Island. in: Geological evolution of Antarctica; proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Cambridge, 1987.Thomson M.R.A. Crame J.A. Thomson J.W. (eds) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1991. pp.329-333. ISBN 0521372666
Kaminuma, K. The seismic activity of Mount Erebus in 1981-1990. in: Volcanological and environmental studies of Mount Erebus, Antarctica.Kyle P.R. (ed) Washington: American Geophysical Union. 1994. pp.35-50 [Antarctic research series: 66] ISBN 0875908756
Kaminuma, K. Dibble, R.R. Seismic activity of Mount Erebus in 1981-1988. Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Antarctic Geosciences 4: 142-148, 1990.
Luo, X., Dibble, R.R. 1993. A 3-dimensional tomographic inverstion on the seismic P-way structure of Erebus volcano, Antarctica. Geophysical Symposium, Wellington, NZ Geophysical Society, Programme and abstracts. P. 27.
Miura, S. Kaminuma, K. Dibble, R.R. Temperature measurements in the crater of Mt. Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctica. Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Antarctic Geosciences 2: 17-23, 1988.
O'Brien, B. 1992. Seismicity, velocity structure, and eruption mechanism of Erebus volcano, Ross Island, Antarctica. MSc thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Shimizu, H. Kaminuma, K. Dibble, R.R. Temperature measurements in the crater of Mount Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctica (2). Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Antarctic Geosciences 5: 53-60, 1991.
Takanami, T. Kitagawa, G. Extraction of microearthquake signals recorded by the seismic network on Mt. Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctica. Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Antarctic Geosciences 5: 46-52, 1991.
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date:
2009-02-04
Last DIF Revision Date:
2010-09-29
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