Overview

• Seismicity spiked to more than 2,000 quakes in a day in June but has since eased to roughly 100 daily, and inflation rates have slowed this year.
• Researchers say current behavior matches patterns seen before Axial’s 1998, 2011 and 2015 eruptions, yet they cannot forecast the trigger or exact timing.
• The volcano sits about 300 miles off Oregon and roughly 4,500–4,900 feet deep, so an effusive seafloor eruption is not expected to threaten people or generate tsunamis.
• Dozens of cabled instruments on the Regional Cabled Array are delivering continuous data, with teams at sea this month recovering and servicing sensors.
• A distant 8.8 Kamchatka earthquake in July briefly tripped automated eruption alerts, and proposed NSF cuts to the Ocean Observatories Initiative could jeopardize future monitoring.