PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - The Axial Seamount is the most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest, sitting 300 miles off the coast of Oregon and nearly a mile underwater in the Pacific Ocean, along the Juan de Fuca Ridge.

Scientists who are monitoring the volcano have said that an eruption is due before the end of 2025.

The Axial Seamount last erupted in 2015, and before that it had eruptions in 2011 and 1998.

Oregon State University geophysicist William Chadwick said, “at the rate of inflation it’s going, I expect it to erupt by the end of the year.”

The volcano has been chosen as the site of the world’s first underwater volcano observatory and is being closely monitored by scientists at Oregon State University, as well as the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

In June, this y

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