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Authors: | Alparone, Salvatore* Barberi, Graziella* Giampiccolo, Elisabetta* Maiolino, Vincenza* Mostaccio, Antonino* Musumeci, Carla* Scaltrito, Antonio* Scarfì, Luciano* Tuvè, Tiziana* Ursino, Andrea* |
Title: | Seismological constraints on the Mt. Etna (Italy) 2018 flank eruption and implications in the volcano flanks dynamics. | Journal: | Terra Nova | Series/Report no.: | 5 /32 (2020) | Publisher: | Wiley | Issue Date: | 2020 | DOI: | 10.1111/ter.12463 | Keywords: | Mt. Etna volcano |
Abstract: | 3D earthquake locations, focal mechanisms and stress tensor distribution in a 16- month interval covering the 2018 Mt. Etna flank eruption, enabled us to investigate the relationship between magma intrusion and structural response of the volcano and shed light on the dynamic processes affecting the instability of Mt. Etna. The magma intrusion likely caused tension in the flanks of the volcano, leading to significant ground deformation and redistribution of stress on the neighbouring faults at the edge of Mt. Etna's unstable sector, encouraging the ESE sliding of the eastern flank of the volcano. Accordingly, FPSs of the post-eruptive events show strike slip faulting mechanisms, under a stress regime characterized by a maximum compressive σ1, NE-SW oriented. In this perspective, any flank eruption could temporarily enhance the sliding process of both the southern and eastern flanks of the volcano. |
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