Poor scaling between elastic energy release and eruption intensity at Tungurahua Volcano, Ecuador

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 15, 2005, Pages

  Johnson, Jeffrey B ^a   Ruiz, Mario C ^b,c   Lees, Jonathan M ^b   Ramon, Patricio ^c  

^a Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c ESCUELA POLITÉCNICA NACIONAL   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ELASTIC WAVES; SEISMIC WAVES; THERMAL PLUMES; VOLCANOES;

ELASTIC ENERGY RELEASE; ERUPTION INTENSITY; PLUME EXPANSION SCALES; VOLCANOLOGY;

SEISMOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION; ELASTICITY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA; TUNGURAHUA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 25844461666     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022847     Document Type: Article

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