Axial Seamount - Wikipedia Axial Seamount (also Coaxial Seamount or Axial Volcano) is a seamount, submarine volcano, and underwater shield volcano [3] in the Pacific Ocean, located on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, approximately 480 km (298 mi) west of Cannon Beach, Oregon
Mile-wide underwater volcano off U. S. coast expected to erupt soon . . . Axial Seamount sits under the Pacific Ocean about 300 miles from the U S coast Since 1997, scientists have kept a careful eye on it using instruments that measure pressure on the ocean floor Data shows that the volcano has been swelling, with changing rates that hint at an upcoming eruption
Mile-wide underwater volcano ready to erupt off the West Coast Things are heating up hundreds of miles off the coast of Oregon, where a large undersea volcano is showing signs of impending eruption, scientists say The volcano, known as Axial Seamount, is
Axial Seamount | U. S. Geological Survey - USGS. gov Axial Seamount is located about 300 miles (480 km) off the coast of Oregon and is the most active submarine volcano in the northeast Pacific Ocean, with known eruptions in 1998, 2011, and 2015
Axial Volcano - NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) In the past 15 years, three separate volcanic eruptions have been detected in the NE Pacific by a formerly top-secret U S Navy system originally designed to detect and track submarines The most recent eruption occurred in 1998 on the summit of a large seamount called Axial Volcano
Axial Seamount - Global Volcanism Program Axial volcano lies along the central Juan de Fuca Ridge crest about 480 km W of the Oregon coast The summit reaches about 1 4 km below the ocean surface and is marked by a 3 x 8 km caldera (center) The caldera opens to the SE and has caldera walls up to 150 m high