Dynamic Triggering of Mud Volcano Eruptions During the 2016-2017 Central Italy Seismic Sequence: Triggering of mud volcano eruptions
Abstract
On 24 August 2016 a seismic event (Mw6.0) was the first of the long Central Italy sequence (ongoing at the end of 2017) of medium-to-high magnitude earthquakes, with nine Mw≥5 up to October 2017, and with about 74.000 seismic events registered after 1 year. The largest was the Mw6.5 30 October 2016 event near Norcia. After the major seismic events, 17 mud volcanoes erupted around Monteleone di Fermo village (Marche region). Mud volcano eruptions generally occurred a few hours to a few days after the main earthquakes, suggesting a seismic triggering. We analyzed the peak ground velocities and dynamic stresses during the three largest earthquakes. We also evaluated the static stress changes in order to assess the potential influence of normal stress changes on the feeder system of the activated mud volcanoes. We find a correlation with dynamic stresses, whereas static stress changes are negligible or negative (with values reaching -0.44 bar, clamping feeder dykes). We conclude that seismic shaking (up to ~3.9 bar during Norcia earthquake) is the dominant driver for these eruptions. Finally, we evaluated the response ratio as a function of the dynamic stress. It increases exponentially with peak dynamic stress varying from <10% for peak dynamic stress >0.3 bar tomore »
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Pisa (Italy); Univ. of Firenze (Italy)
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Firenze (Italy)
- Univ. of Palermo (Italy)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Firenze (Italy); Univ. of Firenze (Italy)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1479340
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 122; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 2169-9313
- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 58 GEOSCIENCES
Citation Formats
Maestrelli, Daniele, Bonini, Marco, Delle Donne, Dario, Manga, Michael, Piccardi, Luigi, and Sani, Federico. Dynamic Triggering of Mud Volcano Eruptions During the 2016-2017 Central Italy Seismic Sequence: Triggering of mud volcano eruptions. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1002/2017JB014777.
Maestrelli, Daniele, Bonini, Marco, Delle Donne, Dario, Manga, Michael, Piccardi, Luigi, & Sani, Federico. Dynamic Triggering of Mud Volcano Eruptions During the 2016-2017 Central Italy Seismic Sequence: Triggering of mud volcano eruptions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014777
Maestrelli, Daniele, Bonini, Marco, Delle Donne, Dario, Manga, Michael, Piccardi, Luigi, and Sani, Federico. 2017.
"Dynamic Triggering of Mud Volcano Eruptions During the 2016-2017 Central Italy Seismic Sequence: Triggering of mud volcano eruptions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014777. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1479340.
@article{osti_1479340,
title = {Dynamic Triggering of Mud Volcano Eruptions During the 2016-2017 Central Italy Seismic Sequence: Triggering of mud volcano eruptions},
author = {Maestrelli, Daniele and Bonini, Marco and Delle Donne, Dario and Manga, Michael and Piccardi, Luigi and Sani, Federico},
abstractNote = {On 24 August 2016 a seismic event (Mw6.0) was the first of the long Central Italy sequence (ongoing at the end of 2017) of medium-to-high magnitude earthquakes, with nine Mw≥5 up to October 2017, and with about 74.000 seismic events registered after 1 year. The largest was the Mw6.5 30 October 2016 event near Norcia. After the major seismic events, 17 mud volcanoes erupted around Monteleone di Fermo village (Marche region). Mud volcano eruptions generally occurred a few hours to a few days after the main earthquakes, suggesting a seismic triggering. We analyzed the peak ground velocities and dynamic stresses during the three largest earthquakes. We also evaluated the static stress changes in order to assess the potential influence of normal stress changes on the feeder system of the activated mud volcanoes. We find a correlation with dynamic stresses, whereas static stress changes are negligible or negative (with values reaching -0.44 bar, clamping feeder dykes). We conclude that seismic shaking (up to ~3.9 bar during Norcia earthquake) is the dominant driver for these eruptions. Finally, we evaluated the response ratio as a function of the dynamic stress. It increases exponentially with peak dynamic stress varying from <10% for peak dynamic stress >0.3 bar to >50% for peak dynamic stress >2 bar, indicating a link between earthquake shaking and mud volcano activity.},
doi = {10.1002/2017JB014777},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1479340},
journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth},
issn = {2169-9313},
number = 11,
volume = 122,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Nov 02 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Thu Nov 02 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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