Ground deformation monitoring of the eruption offshore Mayotte
Aline Peltier, Sébastien Saur, Valérie Ballu, François Beauducel, Pierre Briole, Kristel Chanard, Denis Dausse, Jean‐Bernard de Chabalier, Raphaël Grandin, Perrine Rouffiac, Yann‐Treden Tranchant, Maxime Bés de Berc, Simon Besançon, Patrice Boissier, Céleste Broucke, Christοphe Brunet, Kevin Canjamalé, Erwan Carme, Philippe Catherine, Alison Colombain, Wayne C. Crawford, Romuald Daniel, Grégoire Dectot, Nicolas Desfete, Cécile Doubre, Tom Dumouch, Cyprien Griot, Marc Grunberg, Hélène Jund, Philippe Kowalski, Frédéric Lauret, Jacques Lebreton, Frédérick Pesqueira, Frédéric Tronel, P. Valty, J. van der Woerd
Abstract
In May 2018, the Mayotte island, located in the Indian Ocean, was affected by an unprecedented seismic crisis, followed by anomalous on-land surface displacements in July 2018. Cumulatively from July 1, 2018 to December 31, 2021, the horizontal displacements were approximately 21 to 25 cm eastward, and subsidence was approximately 10 to 19 cm. The study of data recorded by the on-land GNSS network, and their modeling coupled with data from ocean bottom pressure gauges, allowed us to propose a magmatic origin of the seismic crisis with the deflation of a deep source east of Mayotte, that was confirmed in May 2019 by the discovery of a submarine eruption, 50 km offshore of Mayotte ([Feuillet et al., 2021]). Despite a non-optimal network geometry and receivers located far from the source, the GNSS data allowed following the deep dynamics of magma transfer, via the volume flow monitoring, throughout the eruption.