Axial Seamount is a young, 30 million-year-old undersea volcano in the Pacific Ocean off the U.S. coast, and it’s expected to ...

Elevated seismicity at Kamaʻehuakanaloa did not impact other volcanoes or any infrastructure on the Island of Hawaiʻi. The ...

An Oregon State University scientist has predicted a volcanic eruption in 2025. But at about one mile under the ocean, the ...

An undersea volcano off the Oregon coast will likely erupt in 2025, and scientists can use the lessons learned from ...

Seamounts generally form when volcanic mountains rise up from the seafloor but fail to reach the surface (those that break the surface become islands). Scientists estimate that there are some ...

The Axial Seamount is not expected to threaten human population centres but it could help scientists forecast the eruption of ...

Thanks to a dense array of sensors on the volcano’s summit and flanks, scientists know that Axial Seamount has been swelling with magma and getting taller, a sign that it’s ready to go off.

The towering undersea volcano known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai had awakened, and on a balmy afternoon in January 2022 it began blasting its insides into the sky above this Pacific island chain ...

A recent discovery suggests sunken islands may be the inspiration for Atlantis, offering exciting clues for researchers.

The Babuyan Claro volcano in the Philippines was once thought to be a candidate; a 2021 paper in the journal Climate of the Past suggested the more likely culprit was Ferdinandea, a volcanic seamount ...

Image: NOAA It brings the BOOM. It, of course, is the Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano off Oregon which scientists predict will erupt this year. The Axial Seamount is the most active ...

About 470 kilometres off Vancouver Island, the Axial Seamount rises from the underwater mountain range known as the Juan de Fuca Ridge. The volcano is shaped like a warrior's shield, about 25 ...