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Set Up For Short Course in Volcano Seismology'.: Readings

This document provides instructions for a 1-week course in volcano seismology, including recommended readings and how to install the necessary obspy software package. Key papers and chapters are listed to introduce seismic techniques for monitoring volcanoes. Instructions are given to install the Anaconda distribution and use conda commands to create an environment and install obspy and additional packages for working with seismic data in Python.

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Set Up For Short Course in Volcano Seismology'.: Readings

This document provides instructions for a 1-week course in volcano seismology, including recommended readings and how to install the necessary obspy software package. Key papers and chapters are listed to introduce seismic techniques for monitoring volcanoes. Instructions are given to install the Anaconda distribution and use conda commands to create an environment and install obspy and additional packages for working with seismic data in Python.

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Set up for ‘short course in volcano seismology’.

A 1-week course in volcano seismology necessarily leaves a lot out. My goal is to


provide enough of an introduction that I think will allow you to move on to more
advanced topics.

The course will consist of lectures and demonstrations/exercises in obspy. Below, I list
some papers for getting started. Then, there are instructions for installing obspy.

Readings
1) For a general seismology text, Shearer’s Introduction to Earthquake Seismology is
very readable:
Chapter 2 is essential continuum mechanics information for seismology
Chapter 3 through section 3.5 derives the wave equation – I will not spend much
time on this but suggest it as a useful read.
The 3rd edition of the book will be available in a few months. You can find a PDF of the
second edition online.

2) Next, we move to a book chapter on Volcano Seismology by J. Wasserman. He has


a pretty good description of volcanic event classification: http://gfzpublic.gfz-
potsdam.de/pubman/item/escidoc:43224:6/component/escidoc:56178/Chapter_13_rev1
.pdf
This chapter briefly covers network design, array processing, and other
geophysical techniques as well.

3) Moving on to more complex papers, next is the lengthy review by Chouet and Matoza
Chouet, B., & Matoza, R. S. (2013). A multi-decadal view of seismic methods for detecting
precursors of magma movement and eruption. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 252, 108-
175. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2012.11.013
This is full of examples and interpretations of LP, VLP, and hybrid events. This
may take more than a few days to read and digest.

Obspy
Next, please see the tutorial for obspy: https://ocs.obspy.org/tutorial/ This page has lots
of excellent examples
Install obspy on your computer using anaconda (for simplicity)
First, install anaconda. This includes several tools for working with python. Installing
modules using conda should not disturb any other python installations on your system.
• Install Anaconda: https://www.anaconda.com/download/
• You want 3.7 and 64 bit
• Then open the Anaconda Prompt from the start menu (if you are on
windows)
• Open a Terminal window if you are on macos or linux
Below are the commands you should enter into the anaconda prompt. I believe this will
work in case something gets corrupted with your installation. You can simply copy and
paste the whole list of commands. I will continue to work to streamline this so it isn't
such a hassle. If everything is already installed and working, these commands will let
you know and nothing will get damaged.

On the command line, type the following


conda config --add channels conda-forge
• The above command sets conda to install packages from a certain place
(conda-forge.org). The next command creates an environment called obspy37
with python version 3.7.
conda create -n obspy37 python=3.7
• Next you will activate that newly created environment
conda activate obspy37
• You will notice that the command line prompt now has the name of the
environment in parentheses (obspy37). Now install obspy, and all the packages
it depends on:
conda install obspy
• conda will look for the obspy package at conda-forge, download it, and install it.
You will be prompted a couple times for confirmation of download/install.
• You have installed the obspy package, but there are a few more things that are
useful to add. This one adds functionality to jupyter notebook to allow for
environment switching
conda install nb_conda
• This one adds more plotting functions.
conda install ipympl

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