00:00Two powerful earthquakes just hit near a massive underwater volcano,
00:04and experts say it's about to blow.
00:06Early Wednesday morning, the ground shook beneath the Pacific Ocean off Oregon's coast.
00:11A 408 quake hit just 25 miles from Axial Seamount,
00:15one of the most active volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest.
00:18Minutes later, a stronger 5.4 quake followed, even closer to shore.
00:22No tsunami alerts were triggered.
00:24And most people along the west coast didn't even feel it.
00:27But scientists are alarmed.
00:29These quakes struck just miles from a volcano that's expected to erupt very soon.
00:34Axial Seamount last erupted in 2015.
00:37But this summer, something changed.
00:39Over 2,000 small quakes were recorded there in just one day.
00:43Now researchers warn.
00:44These two new quakes could be signs the big eruption is just around the corner.
00:48Some even predict it could happen before the end of the year.
00:51The ocean floor is rumbling.
00:53And the countdown may have already begun.
00:56This is a lot of people who have already gone into the sky.
00:57Still looks very different.
00:59It's a lot of people who have already gone into the sky.
01:00And they say, many different places in the sky.
01:02And they think that they'll be reached and this,
01:03they're allmers mm if you can get off the sky.
01:04They're allmers we need to go back in.
