Recently though, geophysicists from the University of Texas discovered a super-duper- uber-volcano at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, in theory, capable of turning our entire surface world into one big Pompeii.
The speed of the inner core's rotation and whether it varies though are debated, and at least one geophysicist not involved with this study says nothing cataclysmic is happening here.
The First International Summit on Hadal Zone Exploration includes discussion groups for hadal technology, marine natural products, biological and genetic resources, and marine geophysics and biology.