[BurbankKarl]

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I've heard that these eruptions can heat up the local ocean water and change the weather patterns, although I'm not sure what those changes would be. It's like a mini El Nino I guess.

[Yasotay]

I'm at least glad to know the Navy is still listening ....

[Mike Darancette]

Can underwater volcanoes be explosive?

[bd476]

Ping.

[bd476]

"In the past six days, the area has been rocked by nearly 4,000 temblors, most tiny, but some exceeding magnitude 4."

Something to keep a watchful eye on.

[RandallFlagg]

Ummm, allow me to be the first to state............

Bush's Fault!!!

[e_engineer]

The image below is the latest NOAA Infrared image of the North Pacific. There does not seem to be anything unusual in the ocean surface temperatures:

If the heat from the underwater volcanic activity did reach the surface, it should create a warm plume that follows the local currents shown below:

[GretchenM]

Same type of news coming from the Oregon coast ...

The Associated Press is reporting that thousands of small earthquakes occurring off the Oregon Coast are the result of an "earthquake swarm" that happened last weekend. The earthquake swarms are reportedly associated with the seafloor "spreading," according to Robert P. Dziak, an Oregon State oceanographer. The small quakes don't impose a threat of tsunami at this time, however a section of the Northwest sea floor known as the Cascadia subduction zone is similar to the Indian Ocean area that produced the magnitude 9 quake and the subsequent tsunami that wreaked havoc in Southeast Asia in December.

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