>>40761399Axial’s eruption also won’t trigger “the Big One” – the much feared Cascadia earthquake – because it’s located on the ridge of two different tectonic plates and is too far away from the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a 600-mile fault that runs from California to British Columbia about 70 to 100 miles off the Pacific coast shoreline.
Its eruption won’t trigger a tsunami or a massive land-based earthquake because of its depth and its distance from the region’s megathrust Cascadia fault. But scientists can use the lessons learned from forecasting its eruption and watching it unfold to monitor other more hazardous and unpredictable volcanoes.