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CanonRay

(14,097 posts) Sun May 3, 2015, 05:08 PM May 2015

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'Wired' Underwater Volcano May Be Erupting Off Oregon

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.

http://www.livescience.com/50703-axial-seamount-2015-eruption.html

Previously posted in Science. This volcano is 298 miles west of Cannon Beach.

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'Wired' Underwater Volcano May Be Erupting Off Oregon (Original Post) CanonRay May 2015 OP

This is 'way cool, but I'm kinda glad I'm over here East of the Cascades. classof56 May 2015 #1

classof56

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1. This is 'way cool, but I'm kinda glad I'm over here East of the Cascades.

Reply to CanonRay (Original post)

Sun May 3, 2015, 08:10 PM

May 2015

Thanks for the link!

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