I-VOLCAN - Seismic Monitoring Network of Mt. Melbourne (Antarctica)

Continuous seismic monitoring data from Mt. Melbourne volcano (Victoria Land) are recorded for volcanic risk mitigation. The dataset includes raw continuous waveforms and processed products like Root Mean Squared (RMS) amplitude time series and seismic event counts. Seismic signals cover volcanic seismic signals, ice-quakes, and microseism background signals. Processed data is available for direct download via the provided dashboard links, whereas raw continuous seismic data can be obtained upon request to the point of contact/PIs.

Simple

Date (Publication)
2026-04-08T15:21:00
Identifier
https://antarcticdatacenter.cnr.it/geonetwork/srv/api/records/fb76df45-1654-46c0-b827-b4252769fe0f
Purpose

This resource was developed to establish a permanent monitoring system for volcanic risk mitigation at Mt. Melbourne and Mt. Rittmann while providing a continuous stream of high-quality data to advance multidisciplinary scientific research in volcanology, geophysics, and glaciology.
Status
On going
principalInvestigator
  Università di Catania - Andrea Cannata
principalInvestigator
  INGV - Gaetano Giudice
pointOfContact
  INGV - Graziano Larocca
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
principalInvestigator
  Università di Catania - Andrea Cannata

SCAR Gazetteer of Antarctica

  • Mount Rittmann

  • Mount Melbourne

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Geology

GCMD - Science Keywords

  • EARTH SCIENCE

  • SOLID EARTH

  • VOLCANIC ACTIVITY

  • EARTHQUAKES
Keywords

  • seismology

  • volcanology

  • icequakes

  • microseism

  • seismo-volcanic signals

PNRA project

  • I-VOLCAN PNRA0000019

Research Organization

  • Università di Catania

  • INGV - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia

GCMD - Providers

  • IT/PNRA
Use limitation
Creative-Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Unique resource identifier
39, 40, 41
Association Type
dependency
Initiative Type
Campaign
Spatial representation type
Text, table
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
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Begin date
2022-11-12
End date
2026-04-08 Now
Unique resource identifier
WGS84
Distribution format
  • FORMATO_DISTRIBUZIONE_DATI (ASCII, CSV, NetCDF...) ( 1 )

  • Raw data in Miniseed format ( )

OnLine resource
PNRA project ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
https://www.ct.ingv.it/ivolcan/tsdws/viewTS/?config_name=seismic ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
https://www.i-volcan.com/ ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Domain consistency

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Pass
Yes
Statement

Processing Workflow:

- Transient Detection: Automatic identification of events (ice-quakes, earthquakes) is performed using the STA/LTA algorithm across multiple frequency bands.

- Spectral Analysis: Frequency content is analyzed via Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to produce spectra and spectrograms. Spectrograms use Welch’s method with 81.92 s windows on 10-minute segments.

- Amplitude Estimation: For continuous signals (microseism, tremor), root mean squared (RMS) amplitudes are calculated. RMS values are computed on the vertical component, typically filtered in the 0.1–40 Hz band
File identifier
cec1125b-cbe1-44f1-aa46-b413c411da9c XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2026-04-10T03:00:16
Metadata standard name

ISO 19139
Metadata standard version

1.0
principalInvestigator
  Università di Catania - Andrea Cannata
 
 

Overviews

overview

Spatial extent

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Keywords

GCMD - Providers
IT/PNRA
GCMD - Science Keywords
EARTH SCIENCE EARTHQUAKES SOLID EARTH VOLCANIC ACTIVITY
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Geology
PNRA project
I-VOLCAN PNRA0000019
Research Organization
INGV - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Università di Catania
SCAR Gazetteer of Antarctica
Mount Melbourne Mount Rittmann

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