Forecast Seamount

Name

Forecast Seamount

Depth

6 meters

Height

63 meters

Type

Submarine volcano

Location

Mariana Islands

Status

Fumarolic

Eruption

Unknown

Description

Forecast Seamount lies about 70 kilometers west of the southern tip of Guam and about 19 kilometers NorthWest . Hydrothermal fluid temperatures up to 200 degrees C, one of the highest temperature vent systems known in the Mariana arc. Vent community species that occur on Forecast Seamount include shrimp, snails, limpets, crabs, sulfide worms, and scale worms and differ from those further to the north in the Marianas arc.