Timothy Birdnow

A major undersea volcanoe off the coast of Oregon is looking to blow, and this could be catastrophic for the West Coast, leading to a tsunami and weather patter upsets as the volcano belches out sulphur compounds into the sea water and up into the atmosphere.

NBC News reported the Axial Seamount appears ready to erupt; there have been multiple earthquakes a day and the surface appears to be bulging. High levels off magma under the ground pour into the surface of the volcano, leading to a bulge. which eventually leads to an eruption. Much like a pimple which swells then pops.

While tsunamis are generally triggered by major undersea earthquakes, a large volcanic eruption triggers at least 25% of them, according to research, and the National Science Foundation warns that global tsunamis are generally a result of major undersea volcanic eruptions, not landslides from earthquakes.

The global warmiac IFL Science claims that the American Geophysical Union says it will blow by the end of the year.

At any rate, we are only beginning to understand the role of undersea volcanoes and how they impact our world. It is now becoming clear that undersea volcanoes impact the climate. See also this.

While this eruption may have little in the way of immediate impact on anybody (but it may too) it should tell us that there is much, much more going on in, on, and under this planet than we as yet grasp. And what we don't know might kill us.

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