Magmatic resurgence in long valley caldera, california: possible cause of the 1980 mammoth lakes earthquakes

Science. 1982 Aug 6;217(4559):531-3. doi: 10.1126/science.217.4559.531.

Abstract

Changes in elevation between 1975 and October 1980 along a leveling line across the Long Valley caldera indicate a broad (half-width, 15 kilometers) uplift (maximum, 0.25 meter) centered on the old resurgent dome. This uplift is consistent with reinflation of a magma reservoir at a depth of about 10 kilometers. Stresses generated by this magmatic resurgence may have caused the sequence of four magnitude 6 earthquakes near Mammoth Lakes in May 1980.