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SUBMITTER: Dempsey DE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7367339 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20200716 1
Sudden steam-driven eruptions strike without warning and are a leading cause of fatalities at touristic volcanoes. Recent deaths following the 2019 Whakaari eruption in New Zealand expose a need for accurate, short-term forecasting. However, current volcano alert systems are heuristic and too slowly updated with human input. Here, we show that a structured machine learning approach can detect eruption precursors in real-time seismic data streamed from Whakaari. We identify four-hour energy burst ...[more]