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Article Dans Une Revue Nature Communications Année : 2022

22 years of satellite imagery reveal a major destabilization structure at Piton de la Fournaise

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Volcanic activity can induce flank failure, sometimes generating large earthquakes and tsunamis. However, the failure structures have never been fully characterized and the failure mechanism is still debated. Magmatic activity is a possible trigger, either through fault slip, which might be induced by dyke intrusions, or through sill intrusions, which might be undergoing coeval normal displacements and slip. At the Piton de la Fournaise volcano, satellite imagery combined with inverse modeling highlights the pathways of 57 magmatic intrusions that took place between 1998 and 2020. We show that a major arcuate dyke intrusion zone is connected at depth to a sill intrusion zone, which becomes a fault zone towards the sea, forming a spoon-shaped structure. Some sills are affected by coeval normal displacement and seaward slip. Overall, the structure is characterized by a continuum of displacement from no slip, to sheared sills and finally pure slip. Repeated intrusions into this spoon-shaped structure could trigger catastrophic collapses.

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Quentin Dumont, Valérie Cayol, Jean-Luc L Froger, Aline Peltier. 22 years of satellite imagery reveal a major destabilization structure at Piton de la Fournaise. Nature Communications, 2022, 13 (1), pp.2649. ⟨10.1038/s41467-022-30109-w⟩. ⟨hal-03712643⟩
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