Massive volcano in US predicted to erupt today

It last erupted in 2015.

The Axial Seamount is a mile-wide underwater volcano that sits 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, and according to the National Science Foundation's Ocean Observatories Initiative, there has been a rise in earthquakes under the seamount, caused by magma pushing to the surface.

The last eruption came in 2015, and according to William Wilcock, a professor and marine geophysicist at the University of Washington, the seafloor has inflated to the level it was at a decade ago.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, he said: "At the moment, there are a couple hundred earthquakes a day, but that's still a lot less than we saw before the previous eruption.

"I would say it was going to erupt sometime later (this year) or early 2026, but it could be tomorrow, because it's completely unpredictable."

If Axial Seamount does erupt in the coming days, experts have assured that it won't pose a threat to any human life.

The Axial Seamount as one of the world's best-monitored submarine volcanoes, which excites Mike Poland, a scientist at the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.

He said: "This particular volcano is probably the best-monitored submarine volcano in the world.

"It's fascinating and doesn't really pose a hazard.

"When Axial Seamount erupts, it'll look a lot like a Hawaiian lava flow eruption.

"It's not an explosive eruption, but calm effusions of lava flowing out of the caldera and across the seafloor."