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Hydroacoustic Detection Of Submarine Landslides On Kilauea Volcano, Jacqueline Caplan-Auerbach, Christopher G. Fox, Frederick K. Duennebier
Hydroacoustic Detection Of Submarine Landslides On Kilauea Volcano, Jacqueline Caplan-Auerbach, Christopher G. Fox, Frederick K. Duennebier
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Landslides produced at the site where lava flows into the ocean at Kilauea volcano have been detected hydroacoustically. Up to 10 landslides per day were detected by a hydrophone on the Hawaii Undersea Geo-Observatory (HUGO), located 50 km south of the entry site. The largest of these landslides, partly subaerial events known as bench collapses, were detected by a network of hydrophones in the eastern Pacific, 5000–7000 km away from the source. The landslides display a characteristic spectral signature easily recognizable among other signals such as earthquake T-phases and anthropogenic noises. The fact that signals are detected at great distances …