Sunday, August 14, 2011

Underwater Axial Seamount Volcano Erupts On Washington Coast

About 250 miles off the Oregon coast, scientists have for the first time ever successfully forecast an eruption of an undersea volcano. The Axial Seamount, an undersea volcano that is one of the most active and intensely studied seamounts in the world, has recently erupted. Scientists from Oregon State University, the University of Washington and Columbia University were responsible for discovering the new eruption.

Bill Chadwick, an Oregon State University geologist, and Scott Nooner, of Columbia University, have been monitoring Axial Seamount for more than a decade. In 2006 the two published a paper in the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research in which they predicted that Axial would erupt before the year 2014.

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