Posted on 05/01/2015 5:31:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin
An undersea volcano about 300 miles (480 km) off Oregon's coast has been spewing lava for the past seven days, confirming forecasts made last fall and giving researchers unique insight into a hidden ocean hot spot, a scientist said on Friday.
Researchers know of two previous eruptions by the volcano, dubbed "Axial Seamount" for its location along the axis of an underwater mountain ridge, Oregon State University geologist Bill Chadwick said on Friday. But those 1998 and 2011 eruptions were detected months or years afterward, Chadwick added.
Last year, researchers connected monitoring gear to an undersea cable that, for the first time, allowed them to gather live data on the volcano, whose peak is about 4,900 feet (1,500 meters) below the ocean surface.
"The cable allows us to have more sensors and monitoring instruments than ever before, and it's happening in real time," said Chadwick, who also is affiliated with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
In the past, researchers left battery-operated monitoring stations in place for several years, but were able to analyze the data only by retrieving those devices.
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Hot spot or subduction zone activity? The Pacific plate is being subducted in that general part of the US. Hot spots are located far away from subduction zones, or tectonic plate edges.
If it creates an Island, I’ll found a new country and claim it for Freepers.
Unfortunately, I’ll only be able to allow a few men, as I am going to start a new religion, with myself as the leader and I won’t put up with any competition.
It’ll have to be a bit of an isolationist country at first but, as time moves on, I hope to populate it with right thinking people only and I will begin to accept outsiders sometime in the next generation....
May I join you? I can cook and Queen. When Yellowstone blows, I’ll be looking for a new home......immediately.
Fracking? /sarc
The global warming crowd is busy trying to get water temperature readings in the immediate vicinity so that they can add them to their global sea temperature readings.
Lol! Wouldn’t doubt it.
What we will find is that the volcano sucks down the magma pool in the chamber and the sea floor drops. Then spews the magma out in a major explosion of the caldera. From that you get a volcano of hundreds of years’ duration. Happened several thousand years ago, too. Now overdue.
Just think of all the pollutants and carbon that thing is spewing! Obviously human caused climate change caused.
You cook and Queen?
I just exiled the last queen. Don’t know if IBS was a problem but, I sure couldn’t deal with the noise.
Anyway, if’n you cook, I clean. No reason for you to do both and it ain’t right.
I also sous chef, so that’ll make things easier.
I won’t use the dishwasher and I’ve one my entire life.
If you don’t like someone washing dishes and putting em away, so they are available for the next use, not my problem. LOL
some people actually hate that....Oh well.
Dust? I’ll never tell you it’s a problem. I hate it and I am constantly wiping down something, all the way down to the baseboard.
Bathroom? Always wiping and cleaning.
Weekend cleaning? I always thought is was a ridiculous way to spend one’s time, when just doing a little each day takes very little effort and time.
So, weekends are free for fun...
I got hang ups...
I will wait and see how they blame SUVs on this one. :))
100% of gaia worshippers agree that it is due to manmade globull warming.
“Scientists monitor undersea volcanic eruption off Oregon coast”
I’m pretty sure this is a result of global warming. Volcanoes have never been known to erupt underwater until man started burning coal.
RACISM!!!
Interesting .... sounds like its right on the Cascadia Fault.
I did predict two months ago that the Cascadia would be the next major rip in the Ring of Fire.
Quakes in NW Nevada (Magma movement) and moderate quakes at north and south portions of Cascadia seemed to point at building energy.
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