Volcano-tectonic deformation in the Kivu Region, Central Africa: Results from six years of continuous GNSS observations of the Kivu Geodetic Network (KivuGNet)
| dc.contributor.author | Geirsson, H. | |
| dc.contributor.author | d'Oreye, N. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mashagiro, N. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Syauswa, M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Celli, G. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kadufu, B. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Smets, B. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kervyn, F. | |
| dc.date | 2017 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-14T13:14:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-14T13:14:29Z | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/11900 | |
| dc.description | We present an overview of the installation, operation, and initial results of the 15-station KivuGNet (Kivu Geodetic Network) in the Kivu Region, Central Africa. The network serves primarily as a research and monitoring tool for active volcanic, earthquake, and plate boundary processes in the region. Continuous operation of in-situ measurement networks in naturally and politically harsh environments is challenging, but has proven fruitful in this case. During the operation of the network since 2009, KivuGNet has captured: co-eruptive deformation from two eruptions of Nyamulagira (in 2010 and 2011 2012); inter-eruptive deformation, which we interpret as a combination of plate motion across the Western East Africa Rift, and decreasing deep-seated magma accumulation under the Nyiragongo-Nyamulagira region; co-seismic deformation from the Mw5.8 August 7, 2015 Lwiro earthquake at the western border of Lake Kivu. We hope that this study will serve as a motivation for further implementation of in-situ geodetic networks in under-monitored and under-studied sections of the East African Rift. | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.title | Volcano-tectonic deformation in the Kivu Region, Central Africa: Results from six years of continuous GNSS observations of the Kivu Geodetic Network (KivuGNet) | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dc.subject.frascati | Earth and related Environmental sciences | |
| dc.audience | Scientific | |
| dc.subject.free | Natural hazards | |
| dc.source.title | Journal of African Earth Sciences | |
| dc.source.volume | 134; AVCoR Special Issue | |
| dc.source.page | 809-823 | |
| Orfeo.peerreviewed | Yes | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2016.12.013 | |
| dc.identifier.url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464343X16304186 | |
| dc.identifier.rmca | 4930 |
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