Analysis of Volcanic Seismicity Clustering Using Data of the 2006 Eruption of Alaska's Augustine Volcano

Evgenii Grekov; Peter Shebalin

doi:10.2205/2025ES001025

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ANALYSIS OF VOLCANIC SEISMICITY CLUSTERING USING DATA OF THE 2006 ERUPTION OF ALASKA'S AUGUSTINE VOLCANO Analysis of Volcanic Seismicity Clustering Using Data of the 2006 Eruption of Alaska's Augustine Volcano

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Published in Russian Journal of Earth Sciences · Volume 25, Issue 4 · ELocator: ES4005 · Rubric: ORIGINAL ARTICLES

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2205/2025ES001025 · EDN: XPILAB

Received: 03.12.2024 Accepted: 03.06.2025 Published: 06.07.2025

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Evgenii Grekov

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Peter Shebalin

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Evgenii Grekov

Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics junior researcher · Russian Federation · Moscow

Lomonosov Moscow State University Russian Federation

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Peter Shebalin

Academic degree: doctor of physical and mathematical sciences

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Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics of Russian Academy of Sciences Russian Federation

Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences Russian Federation

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ABSTRACT

The paper is devoted to the analysis of spatiotemporal grouping of volcanic seismicity events confined to the Augustine volcano in Alaska. Heterogeneity of the seismic regime in the final preparation stage of the 2006 eruption was revealed relative to the regimes during periods of calm and the initial stage of seismic activation. This final stage is presumably associated with the process of magma intrusion into the dike, upon completion of which the eruption began. A detailed analysis of the seismicity of this phase revealed two seismic regimes that differ in their main characteristics. One of the regimes is similar in parameters to that observed at the early preparation stage – a high value of the magnitude-frequency distribution slope parameter (𝑏-value) and a low degree of clustering. The second has a lower b-value and represents a series of clusters ending with the strongest event in the series, followed by a lull.

KEYWORDS

volcanic seismicity, clustering of seismicity, nearest neighbor method, volcanic swarms

Funding

The authors express their gratitude to Professor Vladimir Borisovich Smirnov for consultation and valuable comments on the work. The work was carried out within the framework of the state assignment of the Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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