Not exact matches
Scientists have successfully forecast the latest eruption of Axial Seamount, an active
submarine volcano located
about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon.
Gabrielle Tepp of the Alaska
Volcano Observatory and the U.S. Geological Survey thinks that with improved monitoring, scientists can learn more
about these
submarine eruptions, which threaten travel and alter the ocean soundscape.
Therefore they provide important information
about the evolutionary timing of
submarine volcanos, from inception through to emergence above the sea as they become volcanic islands.
This estimate includes both subaerial and
submarine volcanoes,
about in equal amounts.
The estimates of volcanic production are the wildest of WAGs since we do not have any thing like a complete inventory of
volcanoes, and at least three quarters of the ones we don't know
about are
submarine.