Alcázar-Treviño Jesús, Lara Guillermo, Suarez Eduardo D, Bou Manuel, Domínguez Itahiza, Buchan Susannah, Domínguez Francisco, Fraile-Nuez Eugenio
Centro Oceanográfico de Canarias, IEO-CSIC, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 38180, Spain.
Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial, Universidad de La Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, 38200, Spain.
Sci Rep. 2025 Feb 3;15(1):4137. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-88509-z.
Volcanic processes generate a variety of seismic events that can be detected by both on-land and underwater sensors. During the 2021 subaerial eruption of the Tajogaite volcano on La Palma Island (Canary Islands, NW Africa), an underwater acoustic sensor was strategically deployed to monitor seismic activity. This study presents marine passive acoustic monitoring data from a moored hydrophone deployed offshore at a depth of 77 m and 7 km from the volcanic vent, both during and after the eruption. We compare hydrophone recordings with island's seismic network and earthquake database from the Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN). By calculating acoustic metrics and analyzing low-frequency bands (< 100 Hz), we identified 712 impulsive acoustic signals consistent with seismic events recorded in the seismic catalogue. These acoustic signals were double-pulsed, low-frequency (≤ 50 Hz with peak frequencies ≤ 15 Hz) and exhibited sound levels that well correlated with earthquake magnitudes. Our findings demonstrate that shallow-water hydro-acoustics can detect and estimate the magnitude of volcano-tectonic earthquakes in the studied scenario. These results encourage for the integration of hydro-acoustic monitoring in conjunction with on-land seismic stations to enhance the overall monitoring of the investigated volcanic area seismic activity.
火山活动会产生各种各样的地震事件,陆上和水下传感器都能检测到这些事件。在2021年拉帕尔马岛(加那利群岛,非洲西北部)塔约加伊特火山的陆上喷发期间,一个水下声学传感器被战略性地部署,用于监测地震活动。本研究展示了在火山喷发期间及之后,部署在离岸77米深处、距离火山喷口7公里处的一个系留水听器的海洋被动声学监测数据。我们将水听器记录与该岛的地震网络以及国家地理研究所(IGN)的地震数据库进行了比较。通过计算声学指标并分析低频波段(<100赫兹),我们识别出了712个与地震目录中记录的地震事件相符的脉冲式声学信号。这些声学信号是双脉冲的,低频(≤50赫兹,峰值频率≤15赫兹),并且其声级与地震震级有很好的相关性。我们的研究结果表明,在本研究场景中,浅水水声技术能够检测并估算火山构造地震的震级。这些结果鼓励将水声监测与陆上地震台站相结合,以加强对所研究火山区域地震活动的整体监测。