By Staff Writer (media@latinospost.com) | First Posted: May 03, 2015 06:34 PM EDT

An underwater volcano in Oregon revealed a hidden hot spot in the ocean.

Business Insider reported that the undersea volcano, is located about 300 miles away from the coast of Oregon. The volcano was called "Axial Seamount" because of its position along the axis of a mountain ridge found under the sea. The volcano has a peak of about 1,500 meters under the surface of the ocean. It has reportedly been spewing lava in the past seven days, which caused a drop in the seafloor.

Axial Seamount was known to have erupted two times in the past, particularly in 1998 and 2011, based on the same report by Business Insider.

In 2014, researchers linked monitoring materials to an underwater cable that allowed them to get information about the underwater volcano for the first time.

Bill Chadwick, a geologist at Oregon State University, said on May 1, "The cable allows us to have more sensors and monitoring instruments than ever before, and it's happening in real time."

Chadwick also worked with Scott Nooner of the University of North Carolina, Wilmington and successfully predicted the eruption via a blog post in September 2014. Tech Times reported that they based their forecast on data that the rate of inflation increased by about 400 percent since the volcanic eruption in 2011.

According to Chadwick, pressure sensors discovered that there was an impending eruption on April 24, 2015, based on a report by Live Science. The researchers found over 8,000 small earthquakes over 24 hours on April 23. Close to midnight, the pressure sensors found the seafloor dropping, which means that magma was about to erupt. The seafloor dropped 8 feet total in the following days. The eruption has slowed since, although the volcano still appeared to expel magma, based on the same Business Insider report.

Chadwick said, "We know it didn't erupt in the caldera, or crater, because that's where most of our sensors are, and they all survived. Temperature fluctuations and seismic readings are consistent with an eruption north of the volcano's crater, he said. "But we probably won't know until this summer, when we get out there with a ship and are able to look around."
Tech Times also noted that the researchers confirmed that the underwater volcanic eruption does not pose a threat to the coastal communities. The earthquakes at Axial Seamount are actually very small, having a magnitude of 1 to 2 only. Furthermore, the movements on the seafloor are slow and stable and cannot produce a tsunami.

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