Axial Seamount off Oregon coast eruption potential

[Astronuc]

"Axial Seamount (also Coaxial Seamount or Axial Volcano) is a seamount and submarine volcano located on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, approximately 480 km (298 mi) west of Cannon Beach, Oregon."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_Seamount

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/eoi/axial_site.html

Researchers think Axial Seamount off Northwest coast is erupting – right on schedule
http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2015/apr/researchers-think-axial-seamount-northwest-coast-erupting-–-right-schedule

NEWPORT, Ore. – Axial Seamount, an active underwater volcano located about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon and Washington, appears to be erupting – after two scientists had forecast that such an event would take place there in 2015.

Geologists Bill Chadwick of Oregon State University and Scott Nooner of the University of North Carolina Wilmington made their forecast last September during a public lecture and followed it up with blog posts and a reiteration of their forecast just last week at a scientific workshop.

They based their forecast on some of their previous research – funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which showed how the volcano inflates and deflates like a balloon in a repeatable pattern as it responds to magma being fed into the seamount.
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'Wired' Underwater Volcano May Be Erupting Off Oregon
http://news.yahoo.com/wired-underwater-volcano-may-erupting-off-oregon-194611197.html

An underwater volcano off the coast of Oregon has risen from its slumber and may be spewing out lava about a mile beneath the sea.

Researchers were alerted to the possible submarine eruption of the Axial Seamount, located about 300 miles (480 kilometers) off the West Coast, by large changes in the seafloor elevation and an increase in the number of tiny earthquakes on April 24.
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http://www.ooi.washington.edu/story/Axial+Seamount

It will be interesting to see if and when it breaks surface.

 

[D H]

It will be interesting to see if and when it breaks surface.

I wouldn't call that interesting. I would call that

From http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/eoi/axial_site.html

Axial Seamount
Axial Seamount is an active submarine volcano on the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the NE Pacific. It rises to a depth of 1400 m below sea level and is located approximately 300 miles off the coast of Oregon.

An eruption that could raise the peak by 1400 meters -- I don't want to see that happen.

 

[davenn]

An eruption that could raise the peak by 1400 meters --

I haven't found how deep the ocean is there

if it is already 1400m below sea level ( how tall is it). And obviously another 1400 metre rise will bring it to the surface
get you bids in fast for the purchase of some new real estate

Dave