Micro-Earthquake At Kilauea East Rift Geothermal Area (Gardner, Et Al., 1995)

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY

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Exploration Activity: Micro-Earthquake At Kilauea East Rift Geothermal Area (Gardner, Et Al., 1995)

Exploration Activity Details
Location	Kilauea East Rift Geothermal Area
Exploration Technique	Micro-Earthquake
Activity Date	1950 - Present"Present" contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.
Usefulness	useful
DOE-funding	Unknown

Exploration Basis

This study was conducted to monitor and study the seismic activity on and around Kilauea

Notes

In the 1950's the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory started a seismograph network on and around Kilauea, including the southern coast of the big island. The network can detect and locate earthquakes as small as magnitude 1.0. Due to this network researchers have found that intrusive magmatism and volcanic episodes tend to occur in conjunction with earthquake swarms. Earthquakes in the KERZ are normally small and usually do not exceed 4.0. The most seismically active area within the array is near well HGP-A. The seismic array has been used to determine the location and geometry of faults as well as produce an accurate velocity model of the region.

References

• Murray C. Gardner, James R. McNitt, Christopher W. Klein, James B. Koenig, Dean Nakano (1995) History and Results of Surface Exploration in the Kilauea East Rift Zone