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Beneath the Pacific Ocean, 480 kilometers off the coast of Oregon, the seafloor is rising.

Pressure sensors buried 1,500 meters below the surface have been recording steady inflation for nearly a decade. Axial Seamount — the most active submarine volcano in the northeast Pacific — is swelling upward centimeter by centimeter as magma accumulates beneath its caldera.

Scientists believe it is approaching another eruption.

But this isn’t just a story about a volcano under the ocean. It’s a story about what happened the last time Oregon’s geology crossed a threshold.

7,700 years ago, Mount Mazama collapsed in one of the most powerful eruptions of the past 10,000 years. A VEI 7 event. A mountain 3,700 meters tall disappeared in days. Ash spread across North America. Temperatures dropped. Entire regions were abandoned.

The scar it left behind is now Crater Lake — 592 meters deep, the deepest lake in the United States.

Today, offshore, Axial Seamount is rising again.

Unlike Mazama, Axial sits on a mid-ocean ridge. Its magma is basaltic, fluid, and far less explosive. Its eruptions reshape the seafloor rather than devastate continents. And thanks to the Ocean Observatories Initiative, it is the most monitored submarine volcano on Earth — wired with over 140 instruments streaming real-time data to shore.

But there’s a new uncertainty.

Inflation levels have approached previous eruption thresholds. Forecast models have been revised. AI-assisted seismic monitoring has identified patterns researchers have never tested in real time. And funding cuts threaten to silence the very instruments designed to warn us.

Mazama erupted without warning.

Axial may erupt while we’re watching.

Or it may erupt in silence.

In this video, we explore:
What caused the catastrophic collapse of Mount Mazama
Why Crater Lake exists at all
How Axial Seamount is different — and why it still matters
The science behind volcanic inflation and eruption forecasting
And what happens if the most monitored volcano in the ocean suddenly goes dark

The earth does not operate on human schedules. The sensors measure what has happened — not what comes next.

When the seafloor finally breaks, will anyone be listening?

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