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Predicting Volcanic Eruptions?
June 13, 2012 | Voice of America

Oregon scientists who correctly predicted the 2011 eruption of the Axial Seamount underwater volcano years before it occurred, now say another underwater volcano off the Oregon coast gave off signals just hours before it erupted.” Quoted from the Voice of America press release.


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