Seismic ground vibrations give advanced early-warning of subglacial floods
Publisher's version (útgefin grein) Glacier runoff and melt from volcanic and geothermal activity accumulates in glacier dammed lakes in glaciated areas around the world. These lakes eventually drain, creating hazardous subglacial floods that are usually only confirmed after they exit the glaci...
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ftopinvisindi:oai:opinvisindi.is:20.500.11815/2138 2023-05-15T16:21:45+02:00 Seismic ground vibrations give advanced early-warning of subglacial floods Eibl, Eva Bean, Christopher J. Einarsson, Bergur Pálsson, Finnur Vogfjörd, Kristín S. Jarðvísindastofnun (HÍ) Institute of Earth Sciences (UI) Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ) School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI) Háskóli Íslands University of Iceland 2020-07-21 2504 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/2138 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17624-4 en eng Springer Science and Business Media LLC info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/308377 Nature Communications;11(1) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15744-5 Eibl, E.P.S., Bean, C.J., Einarsson, B. et al. Seismic ground vibrations give advanced early-warning of subglacial floods. Nature Communications 11, 2504 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15744-5 2041-1723 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/2138 Nature Communications doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17624-4 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Seismic ground vibrations Subglacial floods Volcanic activity Geothermal activity Eldvirkni Jarðhitakerfi Jarðskjálftavirkni Jökulhlaup info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2020 ftopinvisindi https://doi.org/20.500.11815/2138 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17624-4 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15744-5 2022-11-18T06:52:01Z Publisher's version (útgefin grein) Glacier runoff and melt from volcanic and geothermal activity accumulates in glacier dammed lakes in glaciated areas around the world. These lakes eventually drain, creating hazardous subglacial floods that are usually only confirmed after they exit the glacier and reach local river systems, which can be many tens of kilometres from the flood source. Once in the river systems, they travel rapidly to populated areas. Such delayed detection represents a potentially lethal shortcoming in early-warning. Here we demonstrate how to advance early-warning potential through the analysis of four such floods in a glaciated region of Iceland. By comparing exceptional multidisciplinary hydrological, GPS and seismic ground vibration (tremor) data, we show that array analysis of seismic tremor can be used for early location and tracking of the subglacial flood front. Furthermore the timing and size of the impending flood can be estimated, prior to it entering the river system. Advanced warnings of between 20 to 34 hours are achieved for large (peak discharge of more than 3000 m3/s, accumulation time of ~ 5.25 years) to small floods (peak discharges from 210 to 380 m3/s, accumulation times of ~ 1.3 years) respectively. The data were collected and analyzed within the framework of FutureVolc, which received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No. 308377. We thank Martin Möllhoff, Heiko Buxel for technical support, Tómas Jóhannesson for fruitful discussion, Benedikt G. Ófeigsson for assistance with GPS processing and Aoife Braiden and Vilhjálmur Kjartansson for assistance in the field. Peer Reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper glacier Iceland Opin vísindi (Iceland) Nature Communications 11 1 |
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Publisher's version (útgefin grein) Glacier runoff and melt from volcanic and geothermal activity accumulates in glacier dammed lakes in glaciated areas around the world. These lakes eventually drain, creating hazardous subglacial floods that are usually only confirmed after they exit the glacier and reach local river systems, which can be many tens of kilometres from the flood source. Once in the river systems, they travel rapidly to populated areas. Such delayed detection represents a potentially lethal shortcoming in early-warning. Here we demonstrate how to advance early-warning potential through the analysis of four such floods in a glaciated region of Iceland. By comparing exceptional multidisciplinary hydrological, GPS and seismic ground vibration (tremor) data, we show that array analysis of seismic tremor can be used for early location and tracking of the subglacial flood front. Furthermore the timing and size of the impending flood can be estimated, prior to it entering the river system. Advanced warnings of between 20 to 34 hours are achieved for large (peak discharge of more than 3000 m3/s, accumulation time of ~ 5.25 years) to small floods (peak discharges from 210 to 380 m3/s, accumulation times of ~ 1.3 years) respectively. The data were collected and analyzed within the framework of FutureVolc, which received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No. 308377. We thank Martin Möllhoff, Heiko Buxel for technical support, Tómas Jóhannesson for fruitful discussion, Benedikt G. Ófeigsson for assistance with GPS processing and Aoife Braiden and Vilhjálmur Kjartansson for assistance in the field. Peer Reviewed |
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Jarðvísindastofnun (HÍ) Institute of Earth Sciences (UI) Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ) School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI) Háskóli Íslands University of Iceland |
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Seismic ground vibrations give advanced early-warning of subglacial floods |
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Seismic ground vibrations give advanced early-warning of subglacial floods |
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Seismic ground vibrations give advanced early-warning of subglacial floods |
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Seismic ground vibrations give advanced early-warning of subglacial floods |
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Seismic ground vibrations give advanced early-warning of subglacial floods |
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seismic ground vibrations give advanced early-warning of subglacial floods |
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