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IUGG XXIV General Assembly July 2-13, 2007 Perugia, Italy<br />

(S) - <strong>IASPEI</strong> - International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's<br />

Interior<br />

JSS007 Poster presentation 1966<br />

A dense aeromagnetic survey on Kuju volcano, central Kyushu Japan<br />

Dr. Mitsuru Utsugi<br />

Aso Volcanology Laboratory Kyoto Univ. IAGA<br />

Yoshikazu Tanaka<br />

Kuju volcano is a one of active volcano on central Kyushu Island, Japan. This volcano is located in the<br />

NE of Aso Caldera, and it consists of many stratovolcanoes and lava domes. Kuju volcano is active<br />

through Holocene and has several historical eruption records. The historical eruption records do not<br />

suggest magmatic eruptions but phreatic or hydrothermal eruptions. Most youngest magmatic eruption,<br />

estimated from geological record is about 1.7ka erupted Kurodake lava dome and pyroclasticflow in the<br />

eastern part of Kuju. On this volcano, small scale eruption was began at October 11, 1995 in the<br />

northern flank of Hossyo dome, the central part of Kuju volcano without remarkable seismicity. About<br />

400m long fissure running west to east effused ash and small lahar. Ash fall was observed in Kumamoto<br />

city, 60km NW of the volcano. But activity was decreased soon and in October 12, there was only white<br />

vapor fumarole about 400m high. The fissure formed several sub-fissures and craters. They are named<br />

a1, a2, a3 craters, and b, c, d, e sub-fissures. Just after this eruption, Kyoto University installed 5<br />

magnetometers around new craters and started continuous geomagnetic field observation. From this<br />

observation, very large geomagnetic temporal change was observed. The amplitude of the total change<br />

during 1995 to 2006 becomes over 500nT in the maximum. On this volcano, low-altitude aeromagnetic<br />

survey was carried out by JMA (Japan Meteorological agency) on Jun. 1996 to observe the subsurface<br />

heat anomalies. For from this period to present, magnetic field has changed over 300nT on the ground.<br />

To detect this field change, we made very dense aeromagnetic survey on this volcano in Dec. 2004.<br />

From obtained data, we calculated upward continuation of observed data, and estimated field intensity<br />

on each observation points of last aeromagnetic survey in 1996. Comparing the field intensity of 1996<br />

surveys and estimated value of 2004, the change in a feature pattern was detected. A magnetic field<br />

decrease was detected by centering on the northeast of crater chain, which was created by 1995<br />

eruption, on the north side and the pattern of an increase was detected in the south. Its amplitude is<br />

about 100 nT in maximum. This pattern and the amplitude are corresponding to the result of obtaining<br />

from the observation on the ground.<br />

Keywords: aeromagneticsurvey, volcanomagneticeffect

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