Volcano Infrasound

Welcome to the new volcano infrasound website!

This site serves as a resource for the volcano infrasound community, partially created by the CONVERSE (Community Network for Volcanic Eruption Response) initiative, which stems from ERUPT and SZ4D. Here you will find information including FAQs on volcano infrasound, best practices for deployments, open-source codes and documentation, and more.

Announcements

CONVERSE Infrasound Workshop Participants

CONVERSE Infrasound Workshop

  • November 19-20, 2019 in Fairbanks, AK
  • Organizers: David Fee (University of Alaska Fairbanks), Jeffrey Johnson (Boise State University), John Lyons (USGS Alaska Volcano Observatory), Matt Haney (USGS Alaska Volcano Observatory), Robin Matoza (UC Santa Barbara)
  • For more information, see the CONVERSE section of this website

Relevant sessions at upcoming conferences:

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Seismological Society of America (SSA)

International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI)

Cities on Volcanoes (COV)

Recent Research Highlights

Figure from Lyons et al. [2019] showing a schematic diagram of the infrasound signals from these large bubbles.

Infrasound from Giant Bubbles

Lyons et al. [2019] describe giant bubbles (radii of 50–220 m) from the 2016-17 submarine eruption of Bogoslof volcano, Alaska.

Lyons, J.J., Haney, M.M., Fee, D. et al. (2019) Infrasound from giant bubbles during explosive submarine eruptions. Nat. Geosci. 12, 952–958.

Infrasound Early Warning

Ripepe et al. [2018] present a scheme for using infrasound array processing to detect and notify authorities of explosive eruption onsets in real time.

Ripepe, M., Marchetti, E., Delle Donne, D., Genco, R., Innocenti, L., Lacanna, G., & Valade, S. (2018). Infrasonic early warning system for explosive eruptions. JGR: Solid Earth, 123, 9570–9585.

Figure from Ripepe et al. [2018].