Capturing Mayotte's deep magmatic plumbing system and its spatiotemporal evolution with volcano-tectonic seismicity
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Date | 2023-09-13 | ||||||||
Language | English | ||||||||
Author(s) | Lavayssiere Aude1, 2, Retailleau Lise1, 3 | ||||||||
Affiliation(s) | 1 : Université Paris Cité, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, CNRS, 1 rue Jussieu, F-75005 Paris, France. 2 : Geo-Ocean, Univ Brest, CNRS, Ifremer, UMR6538, F-29280 Plouzane, France. 3 : Observatoire volcanologique du Piton de la Fournaise, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, 14 RN3 - Km 27, F-97418 La Plaine des Cafres, La Réunion, France. |
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Source | Volcanica (2610-3540) (Volcanica), 2023-09-13 , Vol. 6 , N. 2 , P. 14p. | ||||||||
DOI | 10.30909/vol.06.02.331344 | ||||||||
Keyword(s) | Volcano-tectonic seismicity, Mayotte, Submarine volcano, Deep magmatic plumbing system, Temporal evolution | ||||||||
Abstract | Since 2018, an unexpected number of earthquakes have been occurring offshore Mayotte, in the Mozambique Channel. They are linked to the eruption of the Fani Maoré submarine volcano. Using a recently developed comprehensive automatic catalog, we explore two years of the volcano-tectonic (VT) seismicity between March 2019 and March 2021, and analyse in detail the active structures of the magmatic plumbing system using ~33,000 events. The VT earthquakes highlight three magma storage zones and two aseismic conduits that have never been observed before. The temporal evolution of the seismicity reveals a probable regime change in March 2020. While before, the plumbing system reacted to the drainage of magma from a deep reservoir and to the migration of magma towards the seafloor, it is now responding to new migrations of fluids and to the redistribution of the stress-load across the system's pre-existing faults. This analysis is key to better understanding long-term volcanism worldwide. |
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