The most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest may explode as early as tomorrow, according to a dire warning from scientists.
Located more than 4,900 feet below the Pacific Ocean’s surface and 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, the Axial Seamount is a mile-wide underwater volcano.
Magma surging to the surface has generated a huge increase in earthquakes under the seamount, according to researchers from the National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative.
William Wilcock, a marine geophysicist and lecturer at the University of Washington, claims that the seabed has expanded to its pre-eruption level from 2015. The bulge indicates the accumulation of very hot magma under the surface.
According to Wilcock, “there are currently a couple hundred earthquakes per day, but that’s still a lot less than we saw before the previous eruption.”
According to the marine geophysicist, “I would say it was going to erupt sometime later (this year) or early 2026, but it could be tomorrow, because it’s completely unpredictable.”
