Bibcode
Scarpa, Roberto; Tronca, Fabrizio; Bianco, Francesca; Del Pezzo, Edoardo
Referencia bibliográfica
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 29, Issue 21, pp. 36-1, CiteID 2040, DOI 10.1029/2002GL015576
Fecha de publicación:
11
2002
Revista
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Descripción
A high resolution P-wave image of Mt. Vesuvius edifice has been derived
from simultaneous inversion of travel times and hypocentral parameters
of local earthquakes, land based shots and small aperture array data.
The results give details down to 300-500 m. The relocated local
seismicity appears to extend down to 5 km below the central crater,
distributed in a major cluster, centered at 3 km below the central
crater and in a minor group, with diffuse hypocenters inside the
volcanic edifice. The two clusters are separated by an anomalously high
Vp region at around 1 km depth. A zone with high Vp/Vs in the upper
layers is interpreted as produced by the presence of intense fluid
circulation. The highest energy quakes (up to M = 3.6) are located in
the deeper cluster, in a high P-wave velocity zone. Our results favor an
interpretation in terms of absence of shallow magma reservoirs.