Cleft Segment
About Cleft Segment
The Cleft Segment, the southernmost of the Juan de Fuca Ridge, lies immediately north of the Blanco Fracture Zone. The 80-km-long segment is named for a nearly continuous 10-km-long, 30-50 m wide cleft at its southern end. Two episodes of seafloor spreading were documented along the northern part of the segment in the 1980's. Bathymetric surveys indicated that a series of discontinuous pillow-lava mounds were extruded along a 17-km-long fissure between 1981 and 1987. The eruption possibly coincided with emission of a large plume of hot mineral-laden water in 1986. The location is at a depth of about 2,300 m near the northern edge of the Cleft segment and the southern end of the Vance segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge, about 500 km W of the central Oregon coast. Youthful sheet-lava flows immediately south of the pillow lavas were estimated to be only a few years older.
Eruption reports
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Earthquakes nearby, 30 days
Within about 50 km. Swarms of small quakes can sometimes accompany volcanic unrest.
No earthquakes recorded nearby in the last 30 days.