And the end of 2025, based on the current trends and the assumption that Axial will be primed to erupt when it reaches the 2015 inflation threshold,” the researchers said.
Additionally, they discovered that Axial Seamount was seeing an upsurge in seismic activity, with hundreds of earthquakes and earthquake swarms exceeding 500 per day occurring around.
The volcano. These and other frequent minor earthquakes may indicate the creep of magma trapped under the ocean bottom toward the surface.
In December 2024, the team presented its results at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
Wilcock pointed out that a significant rise in the frequency of earthquakes in the vicinity of the volcano, which is now happening, would be the first indication that an eruption is about to occur.
