{"id":62,"date":"2025-02-27T10:11:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T10:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wovo.iavceivolcano.org\/members-observatories-directory\/observat-vulcanolo-de-cabo-verde-ovcv\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T10:11:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T10:11:58","slug":"observat-vulcanolo-de-cabo-verde-ovcv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wovo.iavceivolcano.org\/members-observatories-directory\/observat-vulcanolo-de-cabo-verde-ovcv\/","title":{"rendered":"Observat???? Vulcanol????o de Cabo Verde (OVCV)"},"content":{"rendered":"

384010-384801 <\/h2>\n

(was 1804)
Observat Vulcanolo de Cabo Verde (OVCV)<\/strong><\/p>\n

ex Aeroporto Francisco Mendes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Praia<\/strong>
Ilha de Santiago<\/strong>
Rep\u00fablica de Cabo Verde<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Telephone :<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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+238-2627271, LEC<\/p>\n

+238-2629145\/9112, UNICV<\/p>\n

+238-2616576, SNPC<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Telefax :<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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+238-2627266, LEC<\/p>\n

+238-2627655, UNICV<\/p>\n

+238-2616455\/6575, SNPC<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Directors:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Ant???? Augusto Gon\u786cves, LEC<\/p>\n

Ant???? E. Querido, UNICV<\/p>\n

Albero C. B. Fernandes, SNPC<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Email :<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.<\/span>, SNPC<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Website :<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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https:\/\/www.2343ec78a04c6ea9d80806345d31fd78-gdprlock\/Observat%C3%B3rio-Vulcanol%C3%B3gico-de-Cabo-Verde-OVCV-175875102444250\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Cape Verde is a volcanic hotspot located in the Macaronesia ecoregion of the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately 375 miles (604 km) off the coast of West Africa. This volcanic archipelago is composed of ten islands (of which nine are inhabited) and eight islets. Holocen volcanism is mainly located at the islands of Sao Vicente, Brava and Fogo (Simkin and Siebert, 1994). Historical volcanic activity has been only recorded at the island of Fogo which consists of a single massive stratovolcano that is the most prominent of the Cape Verde Islands. The roughly circular 25-kilometer-wide island is truncated by a large 9-kilometer-wide caldera that is located asymmetrically NE of the center of the island and is breached to the east. A steep-sided central cone, Pico do Fogo, rises more than 1 kilometer above the caldera floor to about 100-meters above the caldera rim, forming the 2,829-meters-high point of the island. Pico do Fogo, which is capped by a 500-m-wide, 150-meters-deep summit crater, was apparently in almost continuous activity from the time of Portuguese settlement in 1500 AD until around 1760. Later historical lava flows, some from vents on the caldera floor, reached the eastern coast. The most recent eruption on the caldera floor took place en 1995. The Observat???? Vulcanol????o de Cabo Verde (OVCV) <\/strong>has been recently established as a joint effort of the Laboratorio de Engenharia Civil (LEC), the Servi Nacional de Protec Civil (SNPC) and the Universidade de Cabo Verde (UNICV) for reducing volcanic risk in the Cape Verde Islands.<\/p>\n

Staff & Graduate Students:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sonia Melo Silva Victoria, UNICV<\/p>\n

Alberto da Mota Gomes, UNICV<\/p>\n

JoCardoso, UNICV<\/p>\n

Zuleyka  Bandomo Ruiz, LEC<\/p>\n

Inocencio M. J. Barros, LEC<\/p>\n

Josnt???? Fernandes Dias Fonseca, LEC<\/p>\n

Paulo Fernandes Tavares, LEC<\/p>\n

Osvaldino C. A. Costa, SNPC<\/p>\n

Jair Rodrs, SNPC<\/p>\n

Jeremias Cabral, Ph.D. Student, CVARG-Universidade dos Aes<\/em><\/p>\n

Vera Alfama, <\/em>Ph.D. Student, CVARG-Universidade dos Aes<\/em><\/p>\n

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Volcano  Monitoring Program<\/strong><\/p>\n

Permanent instrumental network<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Due to increased awareness of volcanic hazard in Fogo Island following the 1995 eruption, it was installed a permanent instrumental network for the volcanic surveillance (Project VIGIL) in Cape Verde thanks to the PortugueseAID Agency.  This permanent instrumental network is located in Fogo and Brava islands and consist of (1) two broadband triaxial seismic stations (CMG-40T) at FPPC and BCCH observation sites, (2) five short-period triaxial seismic stations at FMLN, FPVC, FCVT, FBAL, and FMVE observation sites, (3) four bi-axial tilt stations (AGI701) at FMLN, FPPC, FLAN and FMVE observation sites. The network was complemented by an automatic meteorological STATION. A telemetry infrastructure based on spread-spectrum radio-links with three separate repeaters was installed to transmit the data in real-time over a distance of V100 km to LEC in the capital, Praia, Santiago Island (Fonseca et al., 2003).<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Discrete volcano monitoring observations<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Geophysics<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Discrete geophysical monitoring tasks are also regularly performed:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n