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##### U.S. Geological SurveyOpen-File Report 2006-1264Version 1.0

# Catalog of Earthquake Hypocenters at Alaskan Volcanoes: January 1 through December 31, 2005

### *By* James P. Dixon, Scott D. Stihler, John A. Power, Guy Tytgat, Steve Estes, and Stephen R. McNutt

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*Orange squares show the location of all Alaskan volcanoes seismically instrumented by AVO as of 2005 (from figure 1).*

### Summary

The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO), a cooperative program of the U.S. Geological Survey, the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, has maintained seismic monitoring networks at historically active volcanoes in Alaska since 1988 (Figure 1).  The primary objectives of the seismic program are the real-time seismic monitoring of active, potentially hazardous, Alaskan volcanoes and the investigation of seismic processes associated with active volcanism.  This catalog presents calculated earthquake hypocenters and seismic phase arrival data, and details changes in the seismic monitoring program for the period January 1 through December 31, 2005. 

The AVO seismograph network was used to monitor the seismic activity at thirty-two volcanoes within Alaska in 2005 (Figure 1).  The network was augmented by two new subnetworks to monitor the Semisopochnoi Island volcanoes and Little Sitkin Volcano.  Seismicity at these volcanoes was still being studied at the end of 2005 and has not yet been added to the list of permanently monitored volcanoes in the AVO weekly update. Following an extended period of monitoring to determine the background seismicity at the Mount Peulik, Ukinrek Maars, and Korovin Volcano, formal monitoring of these volcanoes began in 2005.  AVO located 9,012 earthquakes in 2005.

Monitoring highlights in 2005 include: (1) seismicity at Mount Spurr remaining above background, starting in February 2004, through the end of the year and into 2006; (2) an increase in seismicity at Augustine Volcano starting in May 2005, and continuing through the end of the year into 2006; (3) volcanic tremor and seismicity related to low-level strombolian activity at Mount Veniaminof in January to March and September; and (4) a seismic swarm at Tanaga Volcano in October and November.

This catalog includes: (1) descriptions and locations of seismic instrumentation deployed in the field in 2005; (2) a description of earthquake detection, recording, analysis, and data archival systems; (3) a description of seismic velocity models used for earthquake locations; (4) a summary of earthquakes located in 2005; and (5) an accompanying UNIX tar-file with a summary of earthquake origin times, hypocenters, magnitudes, phase arrival times, and location quality statistics; daily station usage statistics; and all HYPOELLIPSE files used to determine the earthquake locations in 2005.

Download this report as a 78-page PDF document (of2006-1264.pdf; 5.1 MB)

Download the data package (2005_AVO_Catalog.Z; 16.1 MB that opens to a 305.3-MB folder)

For questions about the content of this report, contact Jim Dixon

Also of interest:  Open-File Report 2005-1312:  Catalog of Earthquake Hypocenters at Alaskan Volcanoes: January 1 through December 31, 2004

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