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Spatial
variations of rockfalls and pyroclastic flows around the dome are largely
determined by the extrusion of individual lobes (constraining source area and
direction) and dome height (constraining possible directions for longer
runout events).
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Mapping spatial
variations in rockfall directions over time can be achieved by mapping
azimuth changes in the concentration of energy derived by interpolating the
energy over the different seismic stations (Fig. 8, Calder unpublished data).
I can go over how we do this in class.
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In summary the
lower plot shows that most rockfalls (black = high concentration) occur at an
azimuth of 50 degrees ie into Tar River valley. Changes from this are
observed where you start to see black bands appearing at other azimuth
ranges. Rockfalls were shed from a wider sector of the dome (SW-NE) around
mid-January, and a new lobe, the ‘pancake’ lobe, was extruded on 10 Feb, coinciding,
perfectly with shifts in azimuth-specific energies (Fig. 8).
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As a first
approach this seems to provide a visually straightforward means to monitor
change in growth areas and rockfall locus around the dome. Once refined, and
suitably calibrated, this could easily be integrated into the real-time MVO
monitoring system - we are working on this.
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