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Not sure if this belongs here but not sure where to post. Scientist are studying this leak and speculate it may lead to a major earthquake which could have devastating effects on many nations from the west coast of USA & Canada to Asian Pacific nations potentially in the path of a mega tsunami.
If the ocean water is leaking into the mantle, dont we have more pressing matters? Eventually all the world's water will just leak down into the mantle.
There is a considerable amount of water embedded in the mantle; about equal to the total amount of water in the oceans. The stuff probably accumulates and leaks out in places.
The Earth's oceans are gradually leaking into the interior of the planet.
Earth's water is slowly draining into the planet's crust — though nowhere near fast enough to cancel out the sea level rises we're currently experiencing because of climate change.
At their current rate, according to New Scientist, the oceans will be completely sucked dry in about 12 billion years.
But that doesn't mean there's any cause for concern, the magazine points out: the Sun itself will be long gone by then.
And... there is a hole that is leaking water up into the ocean, not down into the earth below.
The seabed hole off the coast of Oregon is located on top of the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, and the fact that it's leaking may not be a great omen for earthquake activity in the region.
If the ocean water is leaking into the mantle, dont we have more pressing matters? Eventually all the world's water will just leak down into the mantle.
It's not possible for all the world's water to leak down into the mantle. Which is besides the point.
The article isn't saying anything about ocean water leaking into the mantle. The article is about non-salt water and gases that are coming from the earth and up out of the openings on the sea floor and flowing up into the Pacific Ocean near the PNW coastline.
It's a form of water percolation coming from underground up into the sea and coastal land regions that is actually a common thing here. Just like an old fashioned percolating coffee pot. Marine and fisheries and geological specialists have known about and been studying these things here on the west coast for the past century at least. There are also extremely hot sulphur hotsprings coming up out of holes in the sea floor in many places along the west coast. There are entirely different ecosystems and marine life that exist in the warmer waters and sea floor around the hotsprings outflow openings.
It's one of the reasons why the climate of the western coastline of North America is so mild and moderately warm. There's nothing unusual about any of it considering that the entire western geographical region from California all the way up to the Arctic is a living earthquake and/or volcanic region.
British Columbia, Yukon and Alaska each alone have hundreds of volcanic fields and those fields are constantly absorbing fresh water that falls to earth as rain and seeps down into the earth then eventually percolates back up to the surface or out of the sea floor.
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