If you have never heard of the axial motor, you will be forgiven. But the underwater volcano has made national news recently, after research suggested that it was probably an approaching first eruption of 10 years.
The mountain is located about 300 miles from the north coast of Oregon, where the slabs of the quiet and Juan de Fuka – 4600 feet below the surface are found.
“This is at the Ocean Distribution Center, which is on one side of the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate, and the other side is the country that obeys under the subduction zone,” said William Wilcock, a professor at the University of Washington, exploring the volcano, in front of McClachy in a telephone conversation.
A fossilized vortex in Lake Lake, which was active during the eruption of axial stitches through axial.
Will the axial brain explode soon?
The volcano erupted three times since 1998, with the latest in 2015.
“The model, who was Chadwick, at the State University of Oregon, and Scott Nuner in North Carolina, Wilmington, they mainly watched … So there were eruptions in 1998, 2011 and 2015 and they noted that the eruption in 2011 happened at the same amount of knot,” Wilcock said.
The axial stitch is located where the Juan de Fuca slab meets the Pacific plate.
If the theory is correct, it will give an idea of how researchers can predict other volcanic eruptions, Wilcock said.
“Why this volcano is interesting is that the Magic Camera under the volcano is quite shallow. It is less than a kilometer … I think this volcano behaves more than other volcanoes. So I think other volcanoes, they are not as predictable as this,” Wilcok said.
Another key indicator of when the volcano will explode is seismic activity.
During the UW message at the end of April, the volcano saw an average of about 200 to 300 earthquakes per day, with this number reaching 1000 days. This is well below the average of 2000 earthquakes per day, which he saw at the beginning of his last eruption, and Wilcock said there was actually a reduction in seismic activity.
“It actually went down a little to soon, as soon as between 100 and 200 a day, but it ranges from week to week,” Wilcock said.
According to Wilcock, he expects the number of earthquakes per day to reach 500 before the volcano outbreak.
“During these six months, their number increases from a basic 500 per day to 2000 per day,” Wilcock said. “So we are not at the moment at the moment at 2000 a day, but then it is inflated two feet a year. Now it is more slow. So we may not expect that much, but I think I would expect at least 500 a day.”
The axial volcano hosts numerous hydrothermal fields and diffuse flow places that support dense animal and microbial communities.
According to Wilcock, experts expect the volcano to erupt somewhere this year or next year, but it is difficult to determine exactly when
“I think we think on the basis of seismicity that it can be a little further than the other forecasts … But I think everyone would say that if it won’t go this year, it is probably next year,” Wilco said.
What happens when the axial stitches erupt?
While the volcanic eruption and thousands of earthquakes a day off the coast of northern Oregon may sound scary, Wilcock said that the volcano is too far from the land to be noticed.
“These earthquakes are really small,” Wilcock said. “They are magnitude and threes. This is a very small effect and therefore there will be no effect in the 300 miles subduction area.”
In addition, seismic activity around the volcano is not related to the seismic activity of the land, so it is not expected to cause any earthquakes in Washington or Oregon.
This will have an effect on the marine ecosystem, but Wilcock said the affected species would recover quickly.
“When he erupts, you know, many of them are many of them, the greater organisms we kill, but they will carry quite quickly,” Wilcock said. “Then the nutrients coming out of the volcano are actually very good for the microbial community.”