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Seismic Monitoring at Piton de la Fournaise

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The Piton de la Fournaise Volcanological Observatory (“Observatoire Volcanologique du Piton de la Fournaise”, OVPF) started operating at the end of 1979. The first monitored eruption by the OVPF was that of 1981 (Bachèlery et al. in Nature 297(5865):395–397, 1982; Chevallier et al. in L’éruption du mois de février 1981 au Piton de la Fournaise (Ile de la Réunion, Océan Indien). Phénoménologie et remarques structurales, 293(II):187–190, 1981). Since then, the surveillance networks, and particularly the seismic network, have been dramatically improved. In addition, various seismic experiments have been carried out in parallel with the monitoring of the volcano. This chapter is aimed at summarizing the main results obtained within both the framework of the monitoring and that of research experiments.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the OVPF’s technical staff for operating and maintaining the Piton de la Fournaise network since 1980.

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  1. Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Université Blaise Pascal—CNRS—IRD, OPGC, 5 rue Kessler, 63038, Clermont-Ferrand, France

    Jean Battaglia

  2. Institut des Sciences de la Terre, University of Grenoble, Grenoble, France

    Florent Brenguier

  3. Equipe de Sismologie, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris-Sorbonne Paris Cité, UMR CNRS 7154, Université Paris Diderot, 1 rue Jussieu, 75238, Paris Cedex 05, France

    Geneviève Roult

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Battaglia, J., Brenguier, F., Roult, G. (2016). Seismic Monitoring at Piton de la Fournaise. In: Bachelery, P., Lenat, JF., Di Muro, A., Michon, L. (eds) Active Volcanoes of the Southwest Indian Ocean. Active Volcanoes of the World. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31395-0_13

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