Posted on 01/27/2025 7:34:17 AM PST by BenLurkin
For the past decade, a suite of devices have been monitoring Axial’s every action — rumbling, shaking, swelling, tilting — and delivering real-time data via a seafloor cable. It’s “the most well-instrumented submarine volcano on the planet,” says Mark Zumberge, a geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., who was not involved in the work.
But in November, a particular milestone caught Chadwick’s eye: Axial’s surface had ballooned to nearly the same height as it had before its last eruption in 2015 — fortuitously, just months after monitoring began. Ballooning is a sign that magma has accumulated underground and is building pressure.
The 2015 swelling allowed Chadwick, of Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, and colleagues to predict that year’s eruption — “our best forecasting success,” he says. The recent swelling, along with increased seismic activity that indicates moving magma, has led the researchers to narrow in on the next one.
The broader team of Axial researchers also has a new tool for estimating the day-of magma burst that will set things off. And other researchers recently used artificial intelligence to dig into recordings of earthquakes that preceded the 2015 eruption and identified exactly what patterns they should see hours ahead of the next one . “Will this precursory earthquake detection work?” Chadwick asks.
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Sodom and Gamorrahs never endure…
Surf’s up. 🌋🏄
What about the millions of tonnage of CO2 that will be released? We’re all gonna burn up and die!
Sounds like a great prelude to “Goonies 2”
I. DON’T. CARE.
50 eruptions in the last 800 years.
Thar she blows.
Again.
“BLANCO Fracture Zone”? That’s mighty racist of them!
It is way past time to rename it the “BIPOC Fracture Zone.”
The next eruption of the Azial Seamount is no big deal. It erupts now and again with no dramatics, just leaks some lava for a while, then goes back to sleep.
I don't hold a lot of stock in what scientists predict.
tiltmeter
Yeah, but will it rain this weekend?
Good luck, I can’t remember a year that ‘scientists’ haven’t predicted the big quake on the San Andreas, or pushing a Yellowstone eruption or a repeat of the New Madrid.
Didn’t you hear? All the smoke and CO2 from californicate fires and volcanoes is non existent. It is your gas car that is causing the problems.
In my experience, it’s been less the actual scientists crowing about these potential cataclysms than it has been “Ma and Pa” type alarmists who take what the scientists say, accuse them of being involved in a cover-up, and go on radio at 2:00 in the morning telling all the half drunk bug-eyed Skeeters how the world’s going to end.
“Conspiracy Theorist” is a VERY well-earned epithet in MANY quarters.
Yellowstone Volcano - is a real thing, but the time scale is geologic, so it’s MAYBE a “yes” in the next 1,000 years. When it pops, ain’t nobody getting away from it anyway, so you’re only ruining your life worrying about it.
Mammoth Valley Volcano - ditto, but lower impact.
Cascadia Fault - coastally cataclysmic, and 75%+ likely within the next 100 years. Don’t buy on the Pacific Coast below 100ft elevation.
“The Earth is Flat.” == “I’m an argumentative little troll with the personality of a gnat.” Shun with extreme prejudice.
“Never Went To The Moon” == “I’m SUCH an idiot you probably shouldn’t let me pump gas. Meth might be an improvement, aktchually.”
Space Aliens - Well... TECHNICALLY, God nor any of the angels come from anyplace around here, so... But other than them...? Nah.
... and on, and on it goes.
All the dynamic achieves is the growth of doubt as to the existence of anything like an actual Authoritative Source of Truth. The endgame is that nobody will believe anybody, and it’ll be a global free-for-all ripe for any actually organized group to sweep in and take up the reins of power and put everyone under subjugation. Likelihood is something on that scale has potential in the next 100 years. While we’re distracted with the curtain of stock-in-trade politics, all those far-left batshit crazy people we’re ignoring are continuing to build their hive below the social radar.
Thanks BenLurkin.
Some of these idiots don’t understand how Hawaii came to be. In the middle of the ocean there are islands. HOW EXACTLY DO THEY THINK THEY GOT THERE?
You can add astrology to your list.
For it to be real All the stars would have to be equal distance from Earth, The earth flat, and the center of the universe.
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