著者
須藤 靖明 筒井 智樹 中坊 真 吉川 美由紀 吉川 慎 井上 寛之
出版者
特定非営利活動法人日本火山学会
雑誌
火山 (ISSN:04534360)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.51, no.5, pp.291-309, 2006-10-31
被引用文献数
5

So far the ground deformation associated with a magma supply system of Aso Volcano had not been discussed because any clear signals in ground deformations and volcanic earthquake activity had been hardly observed near the Nakadake active crater during its activity enhancement cycles. In this article, however, the deflation source and magma supply system is investigated by the long-term geodetic surveys. The secular subsidence is observed in the Kusasenri area about 3km west of the Nakadake active crater from the 1951's levelling survey in compiled levelling surveys along the Bouchuu-line since 1937. While the ground deformation near the active crater has been obscure. The source of this deflation near the Kusasenri area is estimated on the basis of the spherical pressure source model through the non-linear least square method with using recent survey data which include the Bouchuu-line and an extended survey route. The deflation source is located beneath the Kusasenri area at about 5km depth. However, recent volume changes at the spherical deflation source are smaller than before 1959. The location of the deflation source coincides with the low P- and S-wave velocity body in the 3D seismic velocity structure. This fact supports a hypothesis that the low seismic wave velocity body represents a magma reservoir. Therefore this magma reservoir beneath the Kusasenri area must be connected to the Nakadake active crater. We inferred a rigid conduit in the magma supply system from the obscure ground deformation in the vicinity of the Nakadake crater.
著者
須藤 靖明
出版者
特定非営利活動法人日本火山学会
雑誌
火山. 第2集 (ISSN:04534360)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.20, no.1, pp.1-12, 1975-05-01

The western region of the Aso Caldera is well known to display the considerable activity of earthquakes. Then, the seismic observation was carried out during three months from June to August of 1973. The purpose of this observation was to analyze the nature of earthquakes and to get information on the tectonic structure at the western caldera rim. The 21 hypocenters were located below the western region and the central cone of the Aso Caldera, and the focal mechanism solutions were determined from the P wave first motions. The distribution of epicenters was distinguished into two zones, one was the zone striking from the Tateno Valley to the west and another was the zone striking north to south along the western rim of caldera. These two zones intersect each other at the Tateno Valley where the caldera wall is breached. The hypocentral depths of earthquakes occurring in the former zone were deeper than in the latter zone. The focal mechanism solutions implied that the direction of maximum compressive stress was northwest-southeast for the earthquakes occurring in the former zone, on the other hand, for the earthquakes occurring in the latter zone the direction of maximum compressive stress was northeast-southwest. These appearances were suggesting that these zones were undoubtedly equal to the tectonic lines and that the right lateral strike slip was occurred at each zone.
著者
坂口 弘訓 須藤 靖明 沢田 順弘 吉川 慎
出版者
特定非営利活動法人 日本火山学会
雑誌
火山 (ISSN:04534360)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.53, no.5, pp.143-149, 2008-10-31 (Released:2017-03-20)
参考文献数
14

Aso Volcano is one of the active volcanoes in Japan. Seismic wave associated with volcanic activity had been recorded by Wiechert seismograph at Aso Volcanological Laboratory, Kyoto University from 1928 to 2000. Some records of volcanic tremors related to large-scale explosive events had been already analyzed, however, many events were not yet examined. In this study, the previous volcanic activities with explosion are re-examined and classified into the following four types based on the seismographic record: (A) The amplitude of tremor was small prior to an explosion. After the explosion, the amplitude of tremor increased; (B) A phreatic explosion suddenly took place without any precursory signal. The tremor amplitude was less than 3μm before the phreatic explosion, and then decreased to be less than 0.5μm after the explosion; (C) An explosion occurred after decreasing in amplitude of volcanic tremor. After explosion, volcanic activity had been increasing; (D) The volcanic tremor was increasing and changed into continuous tremors. An explosion occurs among continuous tremor. In Nakadake crater, types C and D are major types of volcanic activity after 1963. The above classification could be an important criteria for the prediction of eruption at Aso Volcano.
著者
須藤 靖明 筒井 智樹 中坊 真 吉川 美由紀 吉川 慎 井上 寛之
出版者
特定非営利活動法人 日本火山学会
雑誌
火山 (ISSN:04534360)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.51, no.5, pp.291-309, 2006-10-31 (Released:2017-03-20)
参考文献数
55
被引用文献数
3

So far the ground deformation associated with a magma supply system of Aso Volcano had not been discussed because any clear signals in ground deformations and volcanic earthquake activity had been hardly observed near the Nakadake active crater during its activity enhancement cycles. In this article, however, the deflation source and magma supply system is investigated by the long-term geodetic surveys. The secular subsidence is observed in the Kusasenri area about 3km west of the Nakadake active crater from the 1951’s levelling survey in compiled levelling surveys along the Bouchuu-line since 1937. While the ground deformation near the active crater has been obscure. The source of this deflation near the Kusasenri area is estimated on the basis of the spherical pressure source model through the non-linear least square method with using recent survey data which include the Bouchuu-line and an extended survey route. The deflation source is located beneath the Kusasenri area at about 5km depth. However, recent volume changes at the spherical deflation source are smaller than before 1959. The location of the deflation source coincides with the low P- and S-wave velocity body in the 3D seismic velocity structure. This fact supports a hypothesis that the low seismic wave velocity body represents a magma reservoir. Therefore this magma reservoir beneath the Kusasenri area must be connected to the Nakadake active crater. We inferred a rigid conduit in the magma supply system from the obscure ground deformation in the vicinity of the Nakadake crater.