Changes in seismic anisotropy at Ontake volcano: a tale of two eruptions

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26443/seismica.v4i1.1101

Keywords:

Volcano seismology, Seismic anisotropy, shear wave splitting, phreatic eruption

Abstract

The interaction of faults, fractures, and hydromagmatic systems of volcanoes can lead to complicated stress patterns that vary over short spatial and temporal scales. Here we study stress-induced anisotropy using observations of shear-wave splitting at 12 stations across Ontake volcano, Japan. The results reveal a complicated pattern of anisotropy indicating that the volcano perturbs the local stress field. In 2007, a minor phreatic eruption (VEI 0) occurred at Ontake, but there is little evidence of changes in splitting parameters during this eruption. In contrast, the much large eruption of 2014  (VEI 3) shows clear temporal changes in splitting parameters following the eruption. The average background magnitude of anisotropy, as described by the delay time between the fast and slow shear wave, doubles to nearly 0.2 second at the onset of the 2014 eruption, but the percent anisotropy increases dramatically from 3% to 20%. Contemporaneously, the polarisation of the fast shear wave rotates towards sHmax. We interpret these observations in terms of basal heating of the hydrothermal system. We suggest that a lack of temporal variation in anisotropy parameters during the 2007 eruption indicates that a critical stress or crack density threshold must be overcome to exhibit a change in anisotropy, which may be indicative of a more significant eruption.

Author Biographies

Toshiko Terakawa, Nagoya University

Lecturer, Earthquake and Volcano Research Center,
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University

Martha Savage, Victoria University of Wellington

Professor of Geophysics, SGEES
Victoria University of Wellington

Tom Kettlety, University of Oxford

Senior Research Fellow, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford

Haruhisa Nakamichi, Kyoto University

Associate Professor
Sakurajima Volcano Research Center, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University

Andreas Wuestefeld, NORSAR

NORSAR, Gunnar Randers vei 15, 2007 Kjeller, Norway

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Kendall, M., Terakawa, T., Savage, M., Kettlety, T., Minifie, D., Nakamichi, H., & Wuestefeld, A. (2025). Changes in seismic anisotropy at Ontake volcano: a tale of two eruptions. Seismica, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.26443/seismica.v4i1.1101

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