08-17-2011, 02:36 AM
quote:So how does this quake monitoring help? If you know that lava is going closer to your house what are you going to do?
Originally posted by csgray
Terracore,
When you live on the side of the world's most productive volcano, and the lava is in the midst of changes in eruptive patterns, you pay attention to the earthquake maps. Swarms of little earthquakes are indicative of where the lava might pop out next, and 4s or better can coincide with rifts opening up and creating new eruptive sites. It isn't really about the earthquakes as much as being about what they can tell us is happening with the volcano.
Carol