Thursday, December 15, 2016

Underwater volcano's fiery eruption captured in detail by seafloor observatory


Underwater volcano's fiery eruption captured in detail by seafloor observatory

12/15/2016 05:23 PM EST

Axial Seamount, located on the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the Northeast Pacific Ocean, erupted in 2015.

A sensor array off the Pacific Northwest coast has captured the cracking, bulging and shaking from the eruption of Axial Seamount, a nearly mile-high undersea volcano, in more detail than ever before.

A series of papers published this week in the journals Science and Geophysical Research Letters -- and announced today during a press conference at the American Geophysical ...

More at https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=190564&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click


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