Journal
NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES
Volume 21, Issue 5, Pages 1639-1665Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-21-1639-2021
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- RIESCA project - Italian Agency for Development Cooperation
- French government IDEX-ISITE initiative [16-IDEX-0001 (CAP 20-25)]
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This study presents novel vent opening probability maps for the volcanic complexes in El Salvador and Nicaragua, based on a multi-model approach that considers different hazardous phenomena separately. The inclusion of thematic vent opening maps can produce significantly different hazard levels from traditional maps.
The San Salvador volcanic complex (El Salvador) and Nejapa-Chiltepe volcanic complex (Nicaragua) have been characterized by a significant variability in eruption style and vent location. Densely inhabited cities are built on them and their surroundings, including the metropolitan areas of San Salvador (similar to 2.4 million people) and Managua (similar to 1.4 million people), respectively. In this study we present novel vent opening probability maps for these volcanic complexes, which are based on a multi-model approach that relies on kernel density estimators. In particular, we present thematic vent opening maps, i.e., we consider different hazardous phenomena separately, including lava emission, small-scale pyroclastic density currents, ejection of ballistic projectiles, and low-intensity pyroclastic fallout. Our volcanological dataset includes: (1) the location of past vents, (2) the mapping of the main fault structures, and (3) the eruption styles of past events, obtained from critical analysis of the literature and/or inferred from volcanic deposits and morphological features observed remotely and in the field. To illustrate the effects of considering the expected eruption style in the construction of vent opening maps, we focus on the analysis of small-scale pyroclastic density currents derived from phreatomagmatic activity or from low-intensity magmatic volcanism. For the numerical simulation of these phenomena we adopted the recently developed branching energy cone model by using the program ECMapProb. Our results show that the implementation of thematic vent opening maps can produce significantly different hazard levels from those estimated with traditional, non-thematic maps.
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