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Posted on 05/09/2025 9:50:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
While predicting the exact timing is tricky, scientists say said an eruption could occur later this year or even tomorrow.
Deep below the Pacific, a restless seafloor volcano off Oregon is showing signs it may soon stir again.
Axial Seamount, a submarine volcano located nearly a mile beneath the ocean surface, is flexing its geologic muscles.
Perched on a hot spot along the Juan de Fuca Ridge, where the Pacific and Juan de Fuca tectonic plates are slowly pulling apart, the volcano is steadily inflating with magma, increasing the frequency of small earthquakes.
Researchers with the National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative, which operates the Regional Cabled Array at the University of Washington, say the uptick in seismic activity suggests an eruption may be near.
“At the moment, there are a couple hundred earthquakes a day, but that’s still a lot less than we saw before the previous eruption,” said William Wilcock, a marine geophysicist at the University of Washington.
While predicting the exact timing is tricky, Wilcock said an eruption could occur anytime between later this year and early 2026 — or even tomorrow.
“I would say it was going to erupt sometime later (this year) or early 2026, but it could be tomorrow, because it’s completely unpredictable.”
Magma rising, pressure building
The researchers also said that the region could witness thousands of small-scale earthquakes as the volcano erupts underwater.
In 2015, 10,000 earthquakes were recorded within 24 hours as magma flowed out of the seafloor volcano for a month, trailing about 25 miles (40 kilometers) underwater. Axial Seamount’s magma chamber has collapsed several times over the years, leaving behind a deep, wide basin known as a caldera.
Despite the extreme conditions, life flourishes here. Hydrothermal vents scattered across the caldera floor release mineral-rich fluids into the icy seawater, creating plumes teeming with microbes — a phenomenon scientists call “snowblowers.”
While past eruptions have wiped out the tiny creatures clustered around these vents, their return is surprisingly swift. Within just a few months, the ecosystem begins to regenerate.
“I think it’s one of the biggest discoveries we’ve made,” said Kelley, a professor of marine geology and geophysics at the University of Washington, in a statement.
“Life thrives in these inhospitable environments, and volcanoes are probably one of the major sources of life in our oceans.”
Ocean feels the shift, land remains unaware Marine life, she said, may feel the seismic shifting after the eruption, but the activity could go unnoticed by people on land.
“It’s not a very explosive event. You won’t see the ash clouds above water, anything like that,” Kelly said.
“It’s like if you put a mile of seawater on top of Kilauea … you may see some fountaining, but that’s it.”
Researchers said that the eruptions are most likely to occur between January and April, as previous events in 1998, 2011, and 2015 took place during this period. Scientists suspect that seasonal gravitational shifts play a role as Earth moves farther from the sun during the early months of the year.
The moon’s pull on ocean tides causes regular changes in pressure along the seafloor, and when magma is already close to the surface, even minor stress variations can make a difference.
They think that ALL, people who become homeless are druggies, worthless, and drunks.
What they cant understand is through greed, a good one third of those homeless people are seniors who have been economically forced out of their homes. Developers drive the cost of housing through the roof..etc.
One little slip up happens and retired people on fixed incomes can and will lose everything.
Even retirement funds do not cover costs these days with inflation the way it is.
What they want, and its been said on here no doubt, is for senior homeless people to be put into concentration type camps. Then, they can kill them off.
That is their attitude.
Excellent. The Aunt Teefers are going to need to move their Tree House and all those Ghillie suits and rubber M-16s to a different “safe place”.
Well...a new and green source of hot water will soon be available so what’s the problem?
“They think that ALL, people who become homeless are druggies, worthless, and drunks.
What they cant understand is through greed, a good one third of those homeless people are seniors who have been economically forced out of their homes. Developers drive the cost of housing through the roof..etc.”
Indeed. I lived it
and hope that I wasn’t so judgemental. Covid was raging and Oregon had everything locked down when my community burned. No motels. Couldn’t even gi inside for a meal or bathroom!
So many times I was treated like a vagrant. The humiliation almost killed me.
I had planned for my old age... lived in town, had all the ambulatory equipment.....
Now, 50 miles away stuck in the boonies trying to start over as the government takes my SS checks every month because they decided WITHOUT DUE PROCESS, that emergency catastrophy funds were a loan.
I should be in assisted living but now I can’t afford that. It’s so frightening out here.
I've watched Colorado fall into the crap hole it is today for the last 20 years. I keep warning Texas. Somehow they think they are different.
By the time the media gets done with their editing
Mankind causing deep-sea volcano off Oregon is rumbling again, likely to erupt anytime soon is there no mercy.
You surely realize that short of civil war, all anyone can do is vote. But, you are confusing a natural disaster with collapse of civilization. Neither can be stopped.
“surely realize that short of civil war, all anyone can do is vote. But, you are confusing a natural disaster with collapse of civilization. Neither can be stopped.”
First don’t talk down to me like I am a Democrat!
People like you told the founding fathers the same BULLSHIT.
What a bunch of crap. Get lost. You are no patriot
You are confusing being an American with being a know it all.
You sound stupid.
” you sound stupid”
Typical leftist answer.
You useless POS
Go screw yourself you twat
I’m stupid for thinking you might be a human being.
You just want to make people miserable. You did
F. YOU
Free Republic is filled with trolls on. I’m done! I don’t need to be tortured. I have the GOD-DAMNED government for that
It’s completely unpredictable but that never stops anybody.
Let's start with this:
For decades we begged all of you for help and got crickets.
1 - Provide evidence of that claim
2 - Explain what you were expecting anyone to do. (Vote in your elections from Georgia?)
3 - What did you do to make your own elections turn out better?
Now, how about you just vote with your feet?
I am being serious as a heart attack when I make the observation that Western Civilization is collapsing. It most certainly is.
Remember, my comment was related to volcanoes and earthquakes. It was colored by the knowledge that your society has flushed itself down the toilet. You are the one who took some odd tangent about all of this being my fault. Who do you actually think sounds like a whiny liberal?
In my jurisdiction homeowners were allowed to have two rental units in the single family house. Then people decided to require everyone to get a basic business license, prove they don’t owe more than $100 in taxes and fees, and have an approved building inspection. This has forced a lot of old people to sell their homes rather than have two low cost renters to help all 3 unites survive in current conditions. Good way to increase the number of low income homeless on our streets.
I predict it will erupt sometime in the next 500 years.
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