Onset of a submarine eruption east of Mayotte, Comoros archipelago: the first ten months seismicity of the seismo-volcanic sequence (2018–2019)

Nicolas Mercury; Anne Lemoine; Cécile Doubre; Didier Bertil; Jérôme Van Der Woerd; Roser Hoste-Colomer; Jean Battaglia

Comptes Rendus. Géoscience, Volume 354 (2022) p. 105-136

Résumé : ... From 10 May 2018 to 1 November 2022 (time of writing), an unprecedented seismic activity is observed east of Mayotte Island (France), related to the largest submarine eruption ever recorded with offshore geophysical studies. Using signals from regional and local seismic stations, we build a comprehensive catalog of the local seismicity for the first ten months of the sequence. ...