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Things are heated hundreds of miles off the coast volcano Scientists say that show the signs of imminent eruption.
The volcano, known as The axis of the mountainIt is located about one mile (1.4 km) under the water, at a geological hot point, where the burning flows from the molten rocks of the mantle of the earth and in the shell. The hot point volcano is common on the sea floor. But the attractive axis also occurs in Juan de Voca Ridge – an area where two huge tectonic plates (Pacific panels and Juan de Voca panels are constantly deployed, causing a steady accumulation of pressure below the surface of the planet.
The frequency of earthquakes has increased significantly as the volcano enlarges with more magma, which indicates that the eruption can be soon, according to researchers in the regional Cablatories Group of the National Science Corporation, a facility run by the facility that it runs Washington University Which monitors the pivotal attractive activity.
“At the present time, there are a few hundred earthquakes per day, but this is still much less than what we saw before the previous explosion,” said William Wilkok, a maritime geophysic scientist and professor at the University of Washington University of Washington.
He said: “I would like to say that the matter will be erupted at some point later (this year) or early 2026, but it may be tomorrow, because it cannot be fully predicted.”
What happens during the eruption?
Wilkok said that during the last eruption of the volcano in April 2015, the team noticed about 10,000 small earthquakes in a small 24 -hour period, and the same can be expected for the next weapon.
He added that the magma – molten rocks below the surface of the earth – came out of the central jar for a month and failed about 25 miles (40 km) via the sea floor.
The magma room also collapsed in the heart of the volcano several times in the past, creating a large hole called Caldira. There, the life of the sea flourishes from the gases rich in minerals that come out through the aquaculture holes, which resemble hot springs underwater. Streams of hot fluids containing billions of microbes and groups of waste that reaches cracks on the surface of Caldira, creating white columns called “snowblowers”.
Deby Kelly, director of the Kabul Regional Group, said that during the previous explosions, the small plants and animals living on the heat holes were burned with lava flows, but after only three months, its ecosystem returned and prosperity again, “said Deby Kelly, Director of the Kabul Regional Group.
“I think it is one of the biggest discoveries that we made,” Kelly, a professor of marine geology and geophysics at Washington University. “Life flourishes in these uncleal environments, and volcanoes may be one of the main sources of life in our oceans.”
White clouds of microbial waste from the sea floor. -Uw/nsf-oi/cssf-ropos
While neighboring marine life, such as fish, whales, and octopus, may feel heat and tears from seismic shift, it is unlikely to be damaged. Kelly told CNN, and perhaps people will not notice on the ground eruption at all.
“It is not a very explosive event. You will not see the clouds of ash above water, anything like that,” she said. “It seems as if I had a tendency from sea water above Kiloa … You may see some fountains, but that’s all.”
In fact, most of the planet’s volcanic activity occurs in underwater spread centers such as Juan de Voca Ridge, who suffers from multiple small volcanic explosions every day, Kelly said.
Kelly said: “The magma is very close to the surface.
How to see
Fortunately, the relative moderate of axial solution makes it ideal for close human monitoring. The next time the volcano erupted, the observatory is even publicly planned Live broadcast Kelly said that the event, which had not been done before.
Monitoring the pillar of the volcano under sea is not an easy task. Scientists witnessed only one work at work for the first time on April 29.
In the Pacific Ocean, about 1300 miles (2092 km) west of Costa Rica, researchers participate with Woods Foundation OceangamOr WhOi, they were in a routine diving to collect data on the eastern Pacific when they noticed that TICA openings no longer teeming with marine life. Instead, the “Barbeque” team found, said Dan Vernari, WHOI WHOI Research researcher. Flashes of orange lava were leaked across the sea floor before it was stiff in the frozen water, indicating that the eruption was happening.
“It is a very important development,” said Fernari. “It is a very preserved environment, because it is difficult to reach and because we have to use a smart technology to understand … … at its core, we see the ways in which this planet is built, built by volcanoes on the sea floor.”
Taboba worms grow on the unique rock formations of the axial mountain. UW/NSF-AOII
As mentioned above, so below
Unprecedented, the close observation of the axial seamout revealed the timing of its eruption not only about what is going on around the surface – as it relates to what is above.
All three explosions occurred – in 1998, 2011 and 2015 – between January and April, the time of the year when the Earth moves away from the sun.
“I do not think we completely understand the reason for this, but it may be associated with (gravitational) powers from the moon that affects the volcano,” said Wilkok.
The moon rotates the Earth every month, and the tide gravity is moved up and down, causing differences in pressure on the sea floor. As the magma room in the volcano reaches the critical mass, these changes put in pressure more pressure on the Caldera, a volcano hole created by previous bangs. Kelly said that high tide pressure also causes more frequent earthquakes, slowly confirming the room to the collapse point.
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