Seismic tremor reveals active trans-crustal magmatic system beneath Kamchatka volcanoes

Cyril Journeau (1) , Nikolai Shapiro , Léonard Seydoux , Jean Soubestre , Ivan Koulakov , Andrei Jakovlev , Ilyas Abkadyrov , Evgeny Gordeev , Danila Chebrov , Dmitry Droznin , Christoph Sens-Schönfelder , Birger Luehr , Francis Tong , Gaspard Farge (2) , Claude Jaupart (2)

1 ISTerre - Institut des Sciences de la Terre
2 IPGP (UMR_7154) - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

The occurrence and the style of volcanic eruptions are largely controlled by the ways in which magma is stored and transported from the mantle to the surface through the crust. Nevertheless, our understanding of the deep roots of volcano-magmatic systems remains very limited. Here, we use the sources of seismovolcanic tremor to delineate the active part of the magmatic system beneath the Klyuchevskoy Volcanic Group in Kamchatka, Russia. The tremor sources are distributed in a wide spatial region over the whole range of crustal depths connecting different volcanoes of the group. The tremor activity is characterized by rapid vertical and lateral migrations explained by fast pressure transients and dynamic permeability. Our results support the conceptual model of extended and highly dynamic trans-crustal magmatic systems.

Domaines: Sciences de la Terre

Cyril Journeau, Nikolai Shapiro, Léonard Seydoux, Jean Soubestre, Ivan Koulakov, et al.. Seismic tremor reveals active trans-crustal magmatic system beneath Kamchatka volcanoes. Science Advances , 2022, 8 (5), ⟨10.1126/sciadv.abj1571⟩. ⟨hal-03612905⟩