Multiparameter monitoring of Fogo Island, Cape Verde, for volcanic risk mitigation

• Main Authors: Nuno P. Lima C, Ra I. N. Heleno A, Clara Lazaro D, Nicolas F. D’oreye E, Ana M. G. Ferreira A, Inocencio J. M. Barros F, Paula Santos C, Zuleyka B, Simon J. Day A G, Jose P. Osorio C D, Miguel Baio A, Joao L. G. Matos
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Fogo; Fogo Island; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.629.9698; http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~anaf/papers/fonseca_et_al_2003_jvgr.pdf

Fogo Island in the Cape Verde Archipelago (North Atlantic) is a stratovolcano of nearly conical shape that rises 2829 m above sea level and V6000 m above the surrounding seafloor. With a population of 40 000, the island has known intense historical volcanic activity since AD 1500, with an average in...