Building a lahar-monitoring system in the Jamapa watershed on the Pico de Orizaba volcano, Mexico
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Keywords

Pico de Orizaba
monitoring
secondary lahars
upper Jamapa watershed
seismic stations
visual surveillance
meteorological stations Pico de Orizaba
monitoreo
lahares secundarios
cuenca Jamapa alta
estaciones sísmicas
vigilancia visual
estaciones meteorológicas

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Sieron , K. ., Córdoba Montiel, F., Hernández Ventura , J. D. ., Morales Martínez , M. A. ., Salinas Santillán , J. C. ., Córdoba Soriano , L. E. ., Hernández Ramírez , M. V. ., Gutiérrez López , O. ., Weissling , B. ., & Monfil León , E. U. . (2022). Building a lahar-monitoring system in the Jamapa watershed on the Pico de Orizaba volcano, Mexico. UVserva, (13), 3–12. https://doi.org/10.25009/uvs.vi13.2851

Abstract

Through the financial support of a recent project by an international foundation, lahar monitoring was initiated in the upper Jamapa watershed, located on the northern flank of the Pico de Orizaba volcano, inside the Pico de Orizaba National Park, where historically and also recently the occurrence of this type of phenomenon took place. The implementation of this system, focused on the monitoring, study, and later also the warning of lahars, implies the acquisition of multiparametric data, among which hydrometeorological, seismic and visual data are included. As it is a system that will fulfill the warning function, the data must be available in real-time at the monitoring center of the Seismological and Volcanological Observatory of Veracruz (Xalapa) for its storage, processing, and timely evaluation. To this end, a local telemetry network has been implemented that, in the first instance, obtains the data from the instruments at the sites of interest and subsequently proceeds to concentrate all of them at a point that houses the POHV permanent seismic monitoring station of Pico de Orizaba volcano, which represents a suitable site to transmit all the information generated by this network to the city of Xalapa.

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Copyright (c) 2022 Dra. Katrin Sieron , Francisco Córdoba Montiel, José Daniel Hernández Ventura , Marco Aurelio Morales Martínez , Juan Carlos Salinas Santillán , Luis Enrique Córdoba Soriano , Marian Victoria Hernández Ramírez , Osvaldo Gutiérrez López , Blake Weissling , Edwin Ulices Monfil León