Instrumentation and Monitoring

Erebus volcano has been continuously monitored through decades of NSF and BAS funded initiatives. Here is a summary of seismic deployments and links to access the various publicly available data sets at the IRIS DMC.

Summary: Erebus has seen multiple seismic deployments over the decades, though they are generally of short duration (months to a few years). One notable exception is the MEVO network, that has intermittent broadband and short period coverage over the better part of 20 years.

MEVO backbone network: Though the earliest stations were deployed in 1981, most original broadband MEVO stations have a beginning date in the early 2000s and have since been replaced or decommissioned. The new Erebus backbone is currently being deployed in 2021-2022.

http://ds.iris.edu/mda/ER/

Small temporary deployment in 1996-1997 as an extension to MEVO.

http://ds.iris.edu/mda/XS/?starttime=1996-01-01T00:00:00&endtime=1997-12-31T23:59:59

Broadband backbone for the Erebus tomography effort (2007-2009)

http://ds.iris.edu/mda/ZW/?starttime=2007-01-01T00:00:00&endtime=2009-12-31T23:59:59

1 month short-period densification for the Erebus tomography experiment (2008-2009)

http://ds.iris.edu/mda/Y4/?starttime=2008-01-01T00:00:00&endtime=2009-12-31T23:59:59

Erebus small array: 50 m aperture square of short period stations to test wavefield gradient effects (2 weeks, 2011-2012)

http://ds.iris.edu/mda/ZO/?starttime=2011-01-01T00:00:00&endtime=2012-12-31T23:59:59

Stop-gap deployments for coverage continuity between MEVO and the new Erebus backbone (2016-)