Abstract
Seismic activity in volcanic settings could be the signature of processes that include magma dynamics, hydrothermal activity and geodynamics. The main goal of this study is to analyze the seismicity of Lipari Island (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea) to characterize the dynamic processes such as the interaction between pre-existing structures and hydrothermal processes affecting the Aeolian Islands. We deployed a dense seismic array of 48 autonomous 3-component nodes. For the first time, Lipari and its hydrothermal field are investigated by a seismic array recording continuously for about a month in late 2018 with a 0.1–1.5 km station spacing. We investigate the distribution and evolution of the seismicity over the full time of the experiment using self-organized maps and automatic algorithms. We show that the sea wave motion strongly influences the background seismic noise. Using an automatic template matching approach, we detect and locate a seismic swarm offshore the western coast of Lipari. This swarm, made of transient-like signals also recognized by array and polarization analyses in the time and frequency domains, is possibly associated with the activation of a NE-SW fault. We also found the occurrence of hybrid events close to the onshore Lipari hydrothermal system. These events suggest the involvement of hot hydrothermal fluids moving along pre-existing fractures. Seismological analyses of one month of data detect signals related to the regional tectonics, hydrothermal system and sea dynamics in Lipari Island.
Introduction
Seismicity in volcanic areas is commonly analyzed to understand the dynamic processes occurring at different scales and to monitor the seismic hazard. In subduction zones seismic signals include purely tectonic events, tremors due to hydrothermalism, magma migration or plate interaction, volcano-tectonic events, swarms and transients (). Therefore it is important to identify the source of the different types of signals also from a volcanic and seismic hazard perspective, particularly where monitoring systems are poorly developed or lacking. The southern Tyrrhenian Sea-Calabrian Arc-Ionian Sea subduction setting is characterized by the volcanic arc including Lipari, Vulcano and Salina islands, which form a NNW-SSE elongated volcanic ridge crossing the central portion of the Aeolian Archipelago (Figures 1A,B) (). The volcanic ridge formed in Quaternary times along the Aeolian Tindari-Letojanni (ATL) fault system, a Subduction-Transform-Edge Propagator (STEP) fault that bounds the western edge of the subduction of the Ionian Sea below the Calabrian Arc and transfers stress across northeastern Sicily (; ; ).
FIGURE 1
The ATL is a complex and heterogeneous crustal discontinuity consisting of a broad NNW-SSE- to NW-SE-trending fault system that cuts the south-western flank of Lipari and Salina, borders both the western and eastern flanks of Vulcano and extends southward to the Ionian coast of Sicily (Figure 1B) (
Ground deformation measurements (
In the last decades, a number of studies based on seismic reflection, marine morpho-structural and bathymetric data (
Methods and Results
To investigate the seismicity in Lipari, we carried out a passive seismic experiment from October 16 to November 14, 2018. We deployed a nodal seismic array of 48 FairfieldNodal ZLand three-component nodes (stations) with a 5 Hz low-corner frequency, nominal sensitivity of 78.7 Vm−1 s−1 and battery life of about one month (
All the nodes, placed at distances between 0.1 and 1.5 km on the island (Figure 1C), recorded continuously at a 4 ms sampling rate. Nodes were buried beneath a few centimeters of soil allowing the GPS signal to arrive at each node for time synchronization; most of them were installed on the street side, others were placed with homeowners, hotel owners, at the Lipari Observatory and Lipari Museum (Figure 1D). Site selection was done before the deployment that took two days and was completed by two groups, each composed of two persons. The deployment and retrieval of the cable-free node system was faster than it would have been with a cabled system, and also cheaper in terms of costs and personnel required. Each node is a complete recording system, including the data logger, a flash memory card and the GPS, without any required connection to any external device, once it has been programmed for the specific acquisition in the laboratory.
The Lipari array recorded over 300 Gb of data, including local and distant earthquakes, as for instance the October 25, 2018 Mw6.8 Peloponnese event and its aftershocks (
FIGURE 2

Day-plots for 30 October, 2018 showing the vertical component of stations 130 (top) and 151 (bottom). P-arrivals of the teleseismic events with magnitude larger than 5.5 that occurred on the same day are also indicated with the yellow stars. Node locations are shown in Figure 1C.
Preliminary Data Inspection and Automatic Event Detection
Data plots of October 30, 2018 show very noisy waveforms at the nodes in the western and southern Lipari (Figure 2) with respect to other days in which the noise level is quite low, at day and night times. Permanent stations, ILOS at Lipari and IVPL at Vulcano (Figure 1C for location) show the same pattern on the same day.
For fast event detection, we run a coincidence trigger algorithm on the whole dataset based on a classical Short Term Average/Long Term Average (STA/LTA) waveform amplitude (
To further investigate the overall signal properties, we compute the spectral parametrization of the whole dataset from 19 October to 13 November in terms of central frequency and shape factor of the power spectra (
FIGURE 3

Spectral parametrization of the dataset recorded from 19 October to 13 November 2018 at node 117, in terms of central frequency (top) and shape factor (bottom).
Further insights into the anomalous periods are given in the next sections, where we discuss different approaches that have been used to study the seismic signals recorded during the Lipari array acquisition time. The evolution of the seismicity for selected stations is also discussed below.
Machine Learning Approaches
The continuous seismic signal, which can be seen as seismic noise or tremor also depending on the SNR (
Self-Organized Maps and Cluster Analysis
A suitable approach to unsupervized classification of continuous seismic data is provided by Kohonen maps or Self Organizing Maps (SOM) (
Each data stream collected by the Lipari array is parametrized as a sequence of vectors describing consecutive data segments of 1-min with 31 static features (10 statistical, 11 characterizing the waveform shape and 10 determining the distribution of the cepstral energy) and another 31 dynamic components (the time derivative of the static components). Those feature vectors are then classified and clustered using an unsupervized SOM. Results are shown in Figure 4 using 10 clusters. Time evolution shows coherent appearance and disappearance of clusters indicated by the number on the vertical axis. Cluster colors are only used to facilitate the visualization of the cluster evolution in time. In the time period of October 30–31, frames are mostly classified in only a few clusters. This “anomalous” behavior does not seem to be correlated with rainfall, temperature and wind conditions which are also shown for comparison in Figure 4. Differently from what was observed on the near Stromboli island (Figure 1B for location) (
FIGURE 4

1-min long frames for stations 117 (top), 130 (middle) and 151 (bottom). Time evolution (horizontal axis) shows coherent appearance and disappearance of clusters, indicated by the number on the vertical axis. Cluster colors are only used to facilitate following their time evolution. Note the “anomalous” period of 30 October–1 November 2018, where frames are mostly classified in only a few clusters. Cluster numbers do not correlate with weather data as shown in the top panels of each figure.
Seismicity Evolution From Supervised Recognition Systems
As we mentioned above, to detect and classify discrete seismic events of the different classes we use the supervised Machine Learning approach. Volcano Seismic Recognition (VSR) systems are generally trained on a single station of a single volcano, decreasing their efficiency when used to recognize events from another station, in a different eruptive scenario or at different volcanoes. However, in the case of Lipari a catalog of previously manually labeled events is not available for training. This is a common situation at many volcanoes that are poorly monitored or lack recent volcanic activity. Specifically for these cases, an innovative, multi-volcano approach was developed by the recent EU funded VULCAN.ears project (
To study the evolution of the seismic activity, after a careful inspection of the seismic signal at different stations, we run an algorithm on the vertical components of the recordings to automatically detect and classify (recognition stage) volcano-seismic events at the following stations (Figure 1C for station location): 117, the best station in terms of SNR after a visual inspection, in the north-western sector of Lipari on tuffs; 151, in the fumarole field; and 130, the southernmost and one of the most noisy stations.
The VI.VSR approach aims to automatically search typical seismic events in continuous data streams recorded at any volcano (
Once the VI.VSR has terminated, we manually inspect the “anomalous” time windows where specific events have been found. Results of this analysis are shown in Figure 5. Different volcano-seismic classes have been automatically detected. LPs are long-period events, which are very commonly observed in active volcanoes, but are not easily interpreted. These signals can be explained by different proposed models that include oscillations of sub-horizontal gas-filled cracks (
FIGURE 5

Seismic evolution for nodes 117 (top), 130 (middle), 151 (bottom) (see Figure 1 for locations). Plot of the type and duration of events (long periods – LPs, tectonics – TECs and volcano-tectonic – VTs earthquakes) automatically recognized by the Volcano-Independent Seismic Recognition (VI.VSR) system. For comparison the number and duration of the event triggers found by the classic STA/LTA algorithm are also shown. The VI.VSR classified and STA/LTA detected events show a similar pattern in all stations.
To explain the “anomalous” behavior of the seismic signals as derived from a classical STA/LTA approach, from the SOM and cluster analysis, we compare the sea level as measured nearby Lipari, at the closest station ISTR (Figure 6) of Ginostra (about 40 km NE of Lipari), located in western Stromboli (Figure 1B for locations). In Figure 6 it is straightforward to note a clear correlation between the seismic signal and the pattern of hydrometric level recorded at Ginostra. In particular, a remarkable increase of the seismic noise is associated with periods of larger oscillations of the sea level, as observed between October 22 and 23, and between October 29 and 31. This correlation is poor at station 117 and remarkable at stations 138 and 130. Interestingly, for the duration of the experiment, the sea wave height due to storms is likely causing the high noise observed in the cluster analysis and in the evolution of the seismic signal as well as in the day-plots shown in the previous section (Figure 2). In addition, it is also worth noting that node 130 is noisier than nodes 117 and 138 (which is located in the hydrothermal area). Furthermore, the relatively low noise at station 117 seems to be of anthropic origin, as it always recurs on a daily pattern.
FIGURE 6

Plots of seismic signal at three different nodes (117, 138 and 130) and height of the sea wave at the tide gauge of Ginostra (ISTR) (https://www.mareografico.it) for three-time intervals in 2018: (A) 20 to 26 October 2018; (B) 27 October to 2 November 2018; (C) 3 to 9 November 2018. Red stars indicate the daily trigger counts recorded during each period. See text for details.
Seismological Analysis
We focus on two kinds of signals that are clearly observed at most stations and can help in understanding the dynamics of Lipari: the volcano-tectonic (VT) events, which are a common feature in volcanic and tectonically active areas, and the hybrid monochromatic signals, which are usually seismic transients produced by magmatic and/or hydrothermal fluids (
In light of the results from previous analyses, we chose to closely inspect the waveform data of 4 November, since the INGV-OE bulletin (http://sismoweb.ct.ingv.it/maps/eq_maps/sicily/catalogue.php) reported a ML1.1 earthquake at 18:44 UTC located offshore the western coasts of Lipari and Vulcano (Figure 7A). A record section of the VT event at the Lipari array is shown Figure 7B, where traces are normalized by the global maximum. This small event was preceded and followed by even smaller events as shown in Figure 7C along with the spectrograms in 10 min long time windows, where most of the seismic energy is above 4 Hz.
FIGURE 7

(A) Day-plots for 4 November 2018 are shown side by side for stations 117 and 138. The ML1.1 earthquake that occurred at 18:44 UTC southwest of Lipari Island and ∼8 km away from Vulcano is also shown (more details in the text). (B) Record section of the ML1.1 event. Distance scale is exaggerated to improve the visualization. (C) Ground velocities (top of each subplot) and spectrograms (bottom) of the 4 November 2018 event at 117 and 138. Spectrograms are computed using a 2 s window length for the fft with 80% overlap.
We apply a multi-station detection of swarm earthquakes with multiple templates (Figure 8A) to possibly detect other VT signals that occurred closely in time and space. The detector algorithm cross-correlates the data stream with each of the template streams. Defining the similarity as the mean of all cross-correlation functions for each template, if the similarity is above a certain threshold then a detection is triggered. The procedure uses a SciPy function (
FIGURE 8

(A) Example of the detection algorithm applied to a 1-h record of the vertical component of selected stations. The stations are labeled in the upper left of each panel. The similarity template plots are also shown. The orange and green vertical lines are the beginning and end, respectively, of the detection window, while the blue horizontal line indicates the detection height. (B) Array analysis of the swarm recorded on 4 November 2018 in the time window 18:40–18:48 (top). Back-azimuth, slowness, correlation coefficient and RMS of the data are shown. Larger circles show back-azimuth, slowness and RMS of the data relative to correlation coefficients larger than 0.6.
On 26 October at 02:36 UTC the event shown in Figure 9 was recorded at most stations located in a NNW-SSE aligned area in western Lipari, on the oldest lithologies affected by active hydrothermal processes. We classified this event as a hybrid event because the P phase is clearly picked, whereas the S arrivals cannot be detected. The dominant frequency is ∼5 Hz. Applying the same location procedure used above, we located the 26 October event offshore node 114, ∼2 km west of the hydrothermal field, at very shallow depth (<1 km), which may explain the clear surface waves following the onset of the initial waveform.
FIGURE 9

Ground velocity waveforms for the 26 October 2018 02:36 UTC event (top) and corresponding spectrograms (bottom) for stations 114, 123 and 138.
Array Analysis
We use seismic array techniques as a tool for detecting, analyzing and locating the complexities of the seismic wavefield in Lipari. The application of array processing methods requires high signal coherence across the array, because the inhomogeneous geology and topography of the sites can produce significant differences in the observed waveforms. The array resolution depends on its geometry, in particular on its aperture. The larger the array aperture the more coherent is the observed signal and the higher is the slowness resolution.
Considering the different types of observed seismic signals discussed above, we applied array analysis techniques in the time (Zero Lag Cross Correlation, ZLCC) and frequency domain (high resolution method,
Time Domain
As described earlier, a small swarm of VT events was identified on November 4, 2018, for which the most energetic seismic event (ML 1.1) was located about 4 km away from the SUBA subarray (southwest direction) at a depth of about 5 km (Supplementary Table S1, bottom). The multichannel analysis technique was applied to 10-min long signals from the events that were filtered in the 6–8 Hz band. Results in Figure 8B show that the signal windows characterized by higher correlation values (cross-correlation > 0.6, indicated by larger circles in the figure) identify back-azimuths in the range [210°, 220°] and slowness of 0.2 s/km. Furthermore, in correspondence of the more correlated signals, the RMS curve (bottom in Figure 8B) shows some relative maxima in amplitude and indicates the presence of transients with amplitudes above the seismic noise.
Frequency Domain
The clustering analysis and the frequency content observed in the day-plots highlight evident anomalies in specific time periods. In particular, as previously noted, 30 October was one of the anomalous days; therefore we investigated the possible presence of coherent tremor in the seismic wavefield. To this aim, a high-resolution array method was applied to the signals of SUBA for the whole day of 30 October at the frequency of 8 Hz. Results in Figure 10 show that where the coherence is larger than 0.6 (larger circles), the propagation vector (back-azimuth and slowness distribution) is not well-defined and therefore the presence of a coherent tremor wavefield generated in the island cannot be proved for this particular day.
FIGURE 10

High resolution array analysis for 1-h signal at 02:00 UTC (top) and 22:00 UTC (bottom) for 30 October 2018 at the SUBA stations (101, 102, 103, 138, 151 and 115 in Figure 1C). Larger colored circles show back-azimuth, slowness and spectral amplitude values for coherence estimates larger than 0.6.
Discussion and Conclusion
We investigated the seismicity of Lipari Island by using different techniques on a one month dataset recorded by a 48 node array (
The hybrid event that occurred in Lipari on October 26, 2018 has been located near node 114, close to the hydrothermal field (Figure 1C), at very shallow depth (<1 km). This depth corresponds to that of the magnetic bottom below Lipari, where the 500°C isotherm is supposed to be located (
The increase in seismic noise detected on October 22, 26 and 30 and November 4 and 5 during periods of sea wave heights indicates that Lipari is subjected to shaking during storms. Generally, sea cliffs are zones mainly exposed to the ground motion generated by the direct sea wave impact and nearshore wave period (
The main conclusions of this study are:
• Lipari is a dynamically active volcanic area as derived from seismological analysis, implying the importance of the systematic survey of the seismic activity and the geochemical monitoring, which can provide useful information for the overall comprehension of the seismic signals. The day plots, cluster analysis and the time evolution of the seismicity in one month of data show that sea wave dynamics, in terms of wave height and frequency of occurrence, causes an increase of the background seismic noise due to the shaking of the island.
• Single frequency and volcano-tectonic events suggest the occurrence of brittle deformation and fluid involvement in the earthquake generation mechanism. Such activity could be explained by the dynamics of the hydrothermal fluids within the NNW-SSE to NE-SW striking deformation belt affecting the western sector of the island. We have shown that seismic swarms, which are common in volcanic and hydrothermal areas, are also a typical feature of the Aeolian Islands. The availability of a dense array allowed us to better constrain the locations of the November 4, 2018 swarm that occurred on a secondary fault of the main NNW-SSE shear zone in the south-western offshore. Thus, we suggest that a dense seismic network operating for a longer time window would give the opportunity to study in detail the seismic wavefield, in terms of its kinematics and dynamics, its correlation with the pre-existing tectonic structures and the interaction with the neighboring Vulcano Island.
Seismological and cluster analyses suggest the coeval action of different processes such as hydrothermal fluid migration, regional tectonics, sea erosion and subsequent cliff instabilities in volcanic islands. In the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea the detailed investigation of seismic signals at the local scale allows us to infer interesting features of the distribution and evolution of the seismicity in one month of recordings. We propose that a monitoring system combining geochemical campaigns, tide gauge and seismic arrays like the one adopted here could contribute to better evaluate the progressive weakening of the rocks and study the steps needed to reduce the hazard related to rock instabilities in coastal areas (
Statements
Data availability statement
The raw data supporting the conclusions of this article will be made available by the authors, without undue reservation.
Author contributions
FD and PP conceived the study. FD, LC, AE and GV deployed the Lipari array. RWC and PP downloaded the full dataset and generated the 1-h SAC files for the analysis. FD, LC and AE carried out the seismological analysis. RC computed the SOM and cluster analysis. GC computed the automatic evolution of seismic data. DG applied the array techniques to seismic data. FD wrote a preliminary draft of the manuscript, with contributions and suggestions from all authors. All authors contributed to the interpretation and discussion of the results and to the final version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research was supported and funded by the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, sezione di Roma 1 and partially supported by the Department of Geology and Geophysics of the Louisiana State University. AE was funded by Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, sezione ONT. PP was supported as a 2020-21 fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. The VSR software development has been funded from EU Horizon 2020 under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. (74249) (VULCAN.ears).
Acknowledgments
We thank Comune di Lipari for hosting the experiment; INGV–OE of Catania and Lipari Observatory (L. Pruiti) for the logistical support. We are grateful to R. Vilardo and M. Martinelli of the Polo Museale di Lipari, Regione Sicilia, the Hotel Antea, CO.MARK and Tenuta Castellaro, Alessandro (grocery store) di Acquacalda, for hosting some nodes of the experiment. LSU students R. Ajala and E. McCullison assisted with the deployment setup and preparation of the nodes. FD would like to thank: F. Alves Pereira for his invaluable help in ObsPy (
Conflict of interest
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
Supplementary material
The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2021.678581/full#supplementary-material
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Keywords
seismic array, active volcanoes, hydrothermal system, volcano-tectonics, machine learning
Citation
Di Luccio F, Persaud P, Cucci L, Esposito A, Carniel R, Cortés G, Galluzzo D, Clayton RW and Ventura G (2021) The Seismicity of Lipari, Aeolian Islands (Italy) From One-Month Recording of the LIPARI Array. Front. Earth Sci. 9:678581. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.678581
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09 March 2021
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30 June 2021
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21 July 2021
Volume
9 - 2021
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Jo Gottsmann, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
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Chris Bean, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), Ireland
Luca De Siena, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
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