Slow sliding of volcanic flanks as PREcursor to catastrophic COLLAPSE

Project Information

PRE-COLLAPSE

Grant agreement ID: 948797

DOI

10.3030/948797

EC signature date 10 November 2020

Start date 1 February 2021

End date 31 January 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 500 000,00

EU contribution

€ 1 500 000,00

Coordinated by

HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR OZEANFORSCHUNG KIEL (GEOMAR)
Germany

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (19)

Ocean-bottom seismometers reveal surge dynamics in Earth’s longest-runout sediment flows

Author(s): Pascal Kunath, Peter J. Talling, Dietrich Lange, Wu-Cheng Chi, Megan L. Baker, Morelia Urlaub, Christian Berndt
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02137-z

Are eruptions reliable precursors to marine volcano collapses?

Author(s): Séverine Furst, Morelia Urlaub, Elisa Klein, Christina Bonanati
Published in: Frontiers, 2023, ISSN 2296-6463
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/feart.2023.1130561

The Submarine Boundaries of Mount Etna’s Unstable Southeastern Flank

Author(s): Morelia Urlaub; Jacob Geersen; Florian Petersen; Felix Gross; Alessandro Bonforte; Sebastian Krastel; Heidrun Kopp
Published in: Crossref, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2296-6463
Publisher: Frontiers in Earth Science
DOI: 10.3389/feart.2022.810790

Formation of undulating seafloor bedforms during the Minoan eruption and their implications for eruption dynamics and slope stability at Santorini

Author(s): Jens Karstens, Jonas Preine, Steven Carey, Katherine L.C. Bell, Paraskevi Nomikou, Christian Hübscher, Danai Lampridou, Morelia Urlaub
Published in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Issue 616, 2025, Page(s) 118215, ISSN 0012-821X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118215

Fast and destructive density currents created by ocean-entering volcanic eruptions

Author(s): Clare, M. A., Yeo, I. A., Watson, S., Wysoczanski, R., Seabrook, S., Mackay, K., Hunt, J. E., Lane, E., Talling, P. J., Pope, E., Cronin, S., Ribó, M., Kula, T., Tappin, D., Henrys, S., de Ronde, C., Urlaub, M. , Kutterolf, S. , Fonua, S., Panuve, S., Veverka, D., Rapp, R., Kamalov, V. and Williams, M.
Published in: Science, Issue 381 (6662), 2023, Page(s) 1085-1092, ISSN 1095-9203
Publisher: Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.adi3038

Identification and differentiation of vertical movement through morphological changes and stratigraphic imprint: Two distinct uplifting mechanisms in the upper Calabrian accretionary wedge, western Ionian Sea

Author(s): Bruna T. Pandolpho, Morelia Urlaub, Christian Berndt, Jörg Bialas
Published in: Basin Research, 2023, ISSN 0950-091X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/bre.12819

Pitfalls and opportunities in estimating the volumes of small, young submarine landslides

Author(s): Morelia Urlaub, Thore Falk Sager, Christian Berndt
Published in: Geo-Marine Letters, Issue 45, 2025, ISSN 0276-0460
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-025-00826-4

An evaluation of the General Bathymetric Chart of the Ocean in shoreline-crossing geomorphometric investigations of volcanic islands

Author(s): Klein, Elisa; Hadré, Emma; Krastel, Sebastian; Urlaub, Morelia
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science (2296-7745) (Frontiers Media SA), 2023-10-26 , Vol. 10 , P. 1259262 (13p.), Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1259262

Reconstruction of the 1908 Messina gravity flow (central Mediterranean Sea) from geophysical and sedimentological data

Author(s): I. Schulten, A. Micallef, S. Krastel, M. Urlaub, M.-A. Gutscher, H. Kopp
Published in: Marine Geology, 2023, ISSN 0025-3227
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2023.107047

Bottom current circulation during the Early Cenozoic in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea

Author(s): Bruna T. Pandolpho, Christian Berndt, Sverre Planke, Jan Inge Faleide, Kasia K. Śliwińska, Ben Manton, Jörg Bialas, Morelia Urlaub
Published in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Issue 671, 2025, Page(s) 119657, ISSN 0012-821X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119657

Geomorphological evidence for volcano-tectonic deformation along the unstable western flank of Cumbre Vieja Volcano (La Palma)

Author(s): Luisa Rollwage, Olga Sánchez-Guillamón, Christian Sippl, Ricardo León, Juan Tomás Vázquez, Morelia Urlaub, Felix Gross, Christoph Böttner, Sebastian Krastel, Jacob Geersen
Published in: Geomorphology, Issue 465, 2024, Page(s) 109401, ISSN 0169-555X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2024.109401

Volcanic crisis reveals coupled magma system at Santorini and Kolumbo

Author(s): Marius P. Isken, Jens Karstens, Paraskevi Nomikou, Michelle Maree Parks, Vincent Drouin, Eleonora Rivalta, Gareth J. Crutchley, Mahmud Haghshenas Haghighi, Emilie E. E. Hooft, Simone Cesca, Thomas R. Walter, Sebastian Hainzl, Joachim Saul, Dimitris Anastasiou, Kostas Raptakis, Nikolai M. Shapiro, Jannes Münchmeyer, Quentin Higueret, Jean Soubestre, Florent Brenguier, Rebeckah S. Hufstetler, Kaisa
Published in: Nature, Issue 645, 2025, Page(s) 939-945, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09525-7

On the Complex Topography of Marine Volcanoes and Its Control on the Spatial and Magnitude Distribution of Surface Displacement

Author(s): Megan Campbell, Séverine Furst, Henriette Sudhaus, Morelia Urlaub
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Issue 130, 2025, ISSN 2169-9313
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
DOI: 10.1029/2024jb030805

Deformation and Gravitational Instability at Anak Krakatau (Sunda Strait, Indonesia): Insights From Direct Shear Experiments and Finite‐Element Models

Author(s): F. Stoepke, M. J. Ikari, A. Hampel, K. Meredew, S. Watt, M. Cassidy, M. Urlaub
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Issue 130, 2025, ISSN 2169-9313
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
DOI: 10.1029/2024jb030544

Formation of undulating seafloor bedforms during the Minoan eruption and their implications for eruption dynamics and slope stability at Santorini

Author(s): Karstens, Jens; Preine, Jonas; Carey, Steven; Bell, Katherine L.C.; Nomikou, Paraskevi; Hübscher, Christian; Lampridou, Danai; Urlaub, Morelia
Published in: Earth and Planetary Research Letters, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 0012-821X
Publisher: Elsevier BV

Giant Submarine Landslide on the East Antarctic Margin During the Plio‐Pleistocene

Author(s): Xiaoxia Huang, Laura De Santis, German Leitchenkov, Carlota Escutia, Flavio Accaino, Morelia Urlaub, Robert M. McKay
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 52, 2025, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2025gl115073

Ocean-bottom seismometers document how submarine landslides develop and grow

Author(s): Pascal Kunath, Peter J. Talling, Morelia Urlaub, Christian Berndt, Wu-Cheng Chi, Megan Baker
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02918-6

Detecting strain with a fiber optic cable on the seafloor offshore Mount Etna, Southern Italy

Author(s): Marc-André Gutscher; Lionel Quetel; Shane Murphy; Giorgio Riccobene; Jean-Yves Royer; Giovanni Barreca; Salvatore Aurnia; Frauke Klingelhoefer; Giuseppe Cappelli; Morelia Urlaub; Sebastian Krastel; Felix Gross; Heidrun Kopp
Published in: Crossref, Issue 4, 2023, ISSN 0012-821X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118230

Fusion seismischer, akustischer und optischer Unterwasserdaten und Modelle zur Analyse submariner Hangrutschungen an Vulkansystemen

Author(s): K. Köser; T. Kwasnitschka; M. Urlaub
Published in: Crossref, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 1432-122X
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/s00287-022-01494-9

Other (2)

Technical Report for Raw 2D MCS Reflection Data, R/V Sonne Cruise 299, Leg 2, Singapore (Singapore) – Port Louis (Mauritius), 15/08/23 – 02/09/23

Author(s): Morelia Urlaub, Semeidi Husrin, Michel Kühn, Cord Papenberg, Janine Berndt
Published in: 2024
Publisher: GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
DOI: 10.3289/tr_2d-mcs_so299_2

Reconstructing volcanic eruptions and tsunamis of Krakatau Volcano - Transit, Cruise No. SO299/2, 15.08.2023 – 02.09.2023, Singapore (Singapore) – Port Louis (Mauritius) REE_T BIO-OPS_2023

Author(s): Urlaub, Morelia; Belo, Julie; Berndt, Christian; Klein, Elisa; Wollschläger, Jochen; Völsch, Anne
Published in: Issue 1, 2023
Publisher: GEOMAR
DOI: 10.48433/cr_so299_2