The volcano is thousands of feet below the ocean’s surface, so it poses no danger to people. But under all that water, a ...

Learn more about the impending Axial Seamount eruption and how the organisms around the underwater volcano may benefit from ...

A researcher monitoring Axial Seamount, 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, says the eruption is expected to happen before the ...

Though perhaps not well known to the general public, Axial Seamount is considered a key window into Earth's geology. Axial is significant because it sits atop the Juan de Fuca Ridge, the region where ...

Axial Seamount, a mile-wide underwater volcano off the coast of Oregon, is showing signs of an imminent eruption. The volcano ...

Although dormant volcanoes are usually quiet, “zombie volcanoes” like Bolivia’s Uturuncu display a surviving amount of activity for a volcano that hasn’t erupted in 250,000 years.

The Axial Seamount sits 300 miles west of Oregon and more than 4,900 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. It is the most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest and, with magma building to ...

A huge underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean could erupt 'any day now', according to scientists. The Axial Seamount, a sleeping giant on the seabed off the coast of Oregon, is apparently getting ...

“This has been the closest that we ever come to witnessing the initiation of an eruption” along the mid-ocean ridge, he said. The team is continuing to study the volcanic activity. Given ...

Scientists have long puzzled over a curious geological mystery in the Pacific Ocean: could one deep-sea hotspot be responsible for both a sprawling underwater volcano chain and the largest volcanic ...