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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 42, Issue 10, Pages 3847-3854Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063621
Keywords
interferometry; numerical modeling; Campi Flegrei; unrest; volcanic source
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- ASI (Italian Space Agency) [Prot.Gen.U 0014061]
- EU [308417, 308665]
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Campi Flegrei caldera (Italy) was affected by a new unrest phase during 2011-2013. We exploit two COSMO-SkyMed data sets to map the deformation field, obtaining displacement rates reaching 9cm/yr in 2012 in the caldera center. The resulting data set is fitted in a geophysical inversion framework using finite element forward models to account for the 3-D heterogeneous medium. The best fit model is a north dipping mixed-mode dislocation source lying at similar to 5km depth. The driving mechanism is ascribable to magma input into the source of the large 1982-1984 unrest (since similar source characteristics were inferred) that generates initial inflation followed by additional shear slip accompanying the extension of crack tips. The history and the current state of the system indicate that Campi Flegrei is able to erupt again, and the advanced techniques adopted provide useful information for short-term forecasting.
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