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Story by Jackie Appel • 43m ago

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The floor of the ocean off the coast of the Pacific Northwest has sprung a leak called Pythia’s Oasis. Here’s what that means.©Marius Hepp / EyeEm

• The floor of the ocean off the coast of the Pacific Northwest has sprung a leak.
• The spring, known as Pythia’s Oasis, is likely venting water from beneath local tectonic plates through a fault called the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
• This liquid is likely acting as a lubricant between the two plates colliding at the fault, and losing too much of it could increase the likelihood of a damaging earthquake.

Theoceanhas a leak.

Technically, it’s a spring, because water is flowing in and not out. But in the ways that matter, it definitely is a leak. It’s known as Pythia’s Oasis, and it’s a spring of almost-fresh water most welling up from under the