Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Ground deformation reveals the scale-invariant conduit dynamics driving explosive basaltic eruptions

  • M. Ripepe,
  • G. Lacanna,
  • M. Pistolesi,
  • M. C. Silengo,
  • A. Aiuppa,
  • M. Laiolo,
  • F. Massimetti,
  • L. Innocenti,
  • M. Della Schiava,
  • M. Bitetto,
  • F. P. La Monica,
  • T. Nishimura,
  • M. Rosi,
  • D. Mangione,
  • A. Ricciardi,
  • R. Genco,
  • D. Coppola,
  • E. Marchetti,
  • D. Delle Donne

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21722-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Here, the authors use 20 years of ground deformation data from Stromboli and correlate this data with eruptive records. They find that duration and amplitude of the inflation trend scales with eruption magnitude, indicating that explosive dynamics obeys the same (scale-invariant) conduit process.