City of West Memphis By Corey Davis – Reporter, Memphis Business Journal Sep 22, 2022 Preview this article 1 min ...

The West Mata volcano on the Pacific ocean seafloor is the deepest underwater eruption yet seen by scientists, who weren't sure that explosive underwater eruptions could happen so deep in the ocean.

Prior to the West Mata discovery, it had only been seen on extinct volcanoes that were more than a million years old. Watch this: Deep-sea volcanic explosion--part 2 (video) 00:35 ...

West Memphis Ready! by MATA transit vans can transport up to eight passengers and are accessible to people living with disabilities. The cost is MATAs fixed-rate fare of $2 per ride.

Before MATA can return to West Memphis, it must first be approved by the city council. It might take up to a month to appear on the agenda.

MATA officials have said they want to add 200,000 hours of bus service, at a cost of about $30 million, to shorten waiting times for MATA riders and improve access to homes, jobs, schools and ...

Taken at the West Mata volcano in the western Pacific, the footage is "spectacular", comments Katharine Cashman of the University of Oregon in Eugene — although it is not quite the first view of ...

The rich soup of chemicals these eruptions spew out helps fuel communities of deep sea organisms at West Mata. For instance, the researchers witnessed shrimp colonies grazing on mats of microbes ...

Scientists discovered West Mata in 2008 during a survey of the northeast Lau Basin. Explosive eruptions were seen in the following year there using a remotely operated underwater vehicle — the ...

Samples the researchers gathered from West Mata revealed the volcano is spewing out boninite, a kind of water-rich lava never before seen, newly made and hitherto only unearthed in ancient deposits.