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The sounds of submarine volcanoes

Authors: Gabrielle Tepp; Matthew Haney; John Lyons; Robert Dziak; Joe Haxel; Del Bohnenstiehl; William Chadwick;

The sounds of submarine volcanoes

Abstract

When submarine volcanoes erupt, several processes can create sounds in the ocean, mostly at low frequencies <100 Hz. Explosions may occur directly in the water column, while earthquakes and other seismicity may produce seismic waves that convert into hydroacoustic waves or boundary (Scholte) waves. Volcanic sounds can propagate large distances through the SOFAR channel. During its 2014 eruption, Ahyi seamount, Northern Mariana Islands produced repetitive signals for approximately 2 weeks at a high rate. These likely explosions were widely recorded on seismometers throughout the region and on hydrophone arrays as far as Chile, ∼12,000 km distant. Bogoslof volcano, a shallow submarine volcano in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, began erupting in December 2016. Many of the detected earthquakes associated with this eruption have large amplitude hydroacoustic phases, likely Scholte waves. A few earthquake swarms were recorded as converted hydroacoustic waves by seismometers on Tanaga volcano, ∼700 km away. A few eruption sequences were also detected on the Tanaga stations, one of which included a monochromatic glide, suggesting efficient transmission of energy into the water column. A single hydrophone deployed near Bogoslof several months after the eruption began may add evidence for how eruptions of submarine volcanoes contribute to the underwater soundscape.

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