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Scientists find eruption at undersea volcano - after forecasting the event
8-9-11
<!--h2>Media Release</h2> <h3>Scientists find eruption at undersea volcano - after forecasting the event</h3-->NEWPORT, Ore. ? A team of scientists just discovered a new eruption of Axial Seamount, an undersea volcano located about 250 miles off the Oregon coast ? and one of the most active and intensely studied seamounts in the world.
What makes the event so intriguing is that the scientists had forecast the eruption starting five years ago ? the first successful forecast of an undersea volcano.
Bill Chadwick, an Oregon State University geologist, and Scott Nooner, of Columbia University, have been monitoring Axial Seamount for more than a decade, and in 2006 published a paper in the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research in which they forecast that Axial would erupt before the year 2014. Their forecast was based on a series of seafloor pressure measurements that indicated the volcano was inflating.
?Volcanoes are notoriously difficult to forecast and much less is known about undersea volcanoes than those on land, so the ability to monitor Axial Seamount, and determine that it was on a path toward an impending eruption is pretty exciting,? said Chadwick, who was chief scientist on the recent expedition, which was jointly funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Science Foundation.
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http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archi...tion-undersea-volcano-after-forecasting-event
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OSU volcano videos - Axial Seamount eruption
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Uploaded by KATUCommunities on Aug 9, 2011
There is no audio with these videos. These videos are part of the OSU study at the Axial Seamount off the Oregon Coast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le2jXVtEz6s
8-9-11
<!--h2>Media Release</h2> <h3>Scientists find eruption at undersea volcano - after forecasting the event</h3-->NEWPORT, Ore. ? A team of scientists just discovered a new eruption of Axial Seamount, an undersea volcano located about 250 miles off the Oregon coast ? and one of the most active and intensely studied seamounts in the world.
What makes the event so intriguing is that the scientists had forecast the eruption starting five years ago ? the first successful forecast of an undersea volcano.
Bill Chadwick, an Oregon State University geologist, and Scott Nooner, of Columbia University, have been monitoring Axial Seamount for more than a decade, and in 2006 published a paper in the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research in which they forecast that Axial would erupt before the year 2014. Their forecast was based on a series of seafloor pressure measurements that indicated the volcano was inflating.
?Volcanoes are notoriously difficult to forecast and much less is known about undersea volcanoes than those on land, so the ability to monitor Axial Seamount, and determine that it was on a path toward an impending eruption is pretty exciting,? said Chadwick, who was chief scientist on the recent expedition, which was jointly funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Science Foundation.
More...
http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archi...tion-undersea-volcano-after-forecasting-event
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OSU volcano videos - Axial Seamount eruption
http://<IFRAME height=349 src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/le2jXVtEz6s" frameBorder=0 width=425 allowfullscreen></IFRAME>
Uploaded by KATUCommunities on Aug 9, 2011
There is no audio with these videos. These videos are part of the OSU study at the Axial Seamount off the Oregon Coast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le2jXVtEz6s