Volcano Monitoring Exercises

GEOL 205: Lecture Notes

The following exercises were written by Dr. Steven Mattox as part of a project for the Hawaii Natural History Association. I've taken the online version of this from Volcano World and reproduced it here with some minor modifications.

REQUIRED EXERCISES--These are the ones that may be on the test

Ground Displacement II

Contouring and Interpreting Ground Displacement

Interpretation of Tilt Vectors

Locating the Center of the Magma Chamber

Tilt, Eruptions, and Earthquakes

Correlation of Tilt, SP Quakes, LP Quakes, and Tremor with Eruptions

Interpreting the Distribution of Earthquakes

Earthquakes and Eruption Prediction

Changes in Horizontal Distance

Measuring Horizontal Distance Changes Across the Mokoweoweo Caldera



OPTIONAL EXERCISES--You may find working these out to be useful as well

Interpreting Tilt

Tilt and Uplift, Eruption Precursors

Monitoring the Mauna Ulu Eruption

Correlation of Tilt and Summit SP Quakes during Repeated Eruptive Episodes

Intrepretation of Ground Displacement I

Uplift, Ground Displacement, and Eruption Prediction

Dry Tilt

Determining Tilt by Measuring Elevation Changes at 3 Corners of a Triangle

If you have comments or suggestions, email me at kenhon@hawaii.edu