August 13, 2011

First Undersea Volcano to Erupt As Predicted

Luis K. -- On August 11, 2011, Oceanographers have pronounce this week for the first time the prediction of the eruption of one of the most active underwater volcano in the world. This volcano is located 250 miles of the coast of Oregon and has been monitoring by the oceanographers since 1998. The oceanographers from Oregon and New York have predicted it will erupt sometime before 2014. When the team sent a remotely operated robot underwater, it found a lava flow that was not there before. They thought they were in the wrong place because it looked so unusual. The team was using bottom pressure sensors and a recording instrument and found out it happened on April 6th. There were researchers that were watching the height of the volcanic hole and found out it was 15 centimeters per year. They soon predicted that it would erupt again when it reached its 1998 level of the crater. From this they can build more knowledge about underwater volcanoes, maybe even on land volcanoes is what Bill Chadwick a volcanologist at Oregon State University.

To be Honest I really found this article interesting because I have never take notice of underwater volcanoes erupting. It was my first time and while reading this article I thought that it was stimulating to hear about an underwater volcano. Not only was I excited but interesting to see how they found it and when they predicted it erupted and when it will erupt next. It was a really great discovery over all as the volcanologist said. This discovery really helped the volcanologist because as he said, it will help gain knowledge about underwater volcanoes and even land volcanoes and when they will erupt. They have learned more behaviors of volcanoes such as when they erupted and when they will erupt. This article was interesting and fun to read over all.

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