A bloated submarine volcano on the West Coast of the US is about to blow, and a good snippet of the event is set to be livestreamed straight to your screen.

The Axial Seamount is an underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean around 480 kilometers (300 miles) from Oregon’s beaches. The submerged feature towers at around 1,100 meters (3,609 feet), with its summit reaching 1,410 meters (4,626 feet) below the sea surface.

The last time it erupted was 2015, exploding with a flurry of lava and volcanic debris across 40 kilometers (25 miles) of the surrounding seafloor. Late last year, geologists put out a warning that the seamount was showing all the tell-tale signs that another eruption was brewing.

“Axial Seamount has suddenly woken up!,” said the abstract to a talk given by William Chadwi

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