Data from Axial, the most-monitored underwater volcano, are helping geophysicists hone eruption predictions. For Axial, 2026 ...

For much of 2025, an underwater volcano off the Oregon coast was treated as a geological ticking clock, with forecasts suggesting it could erupt at almost any moment. Instead, the year is ending ...

The Axial Seamount – located hundreds of miles off the coast of Oregon and nearly 5,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean’s waves – erupted in April 2015, spewing a mile’s worth of lava onto the sea floor.

(CNN) — A massive underwater mountain, otherwise known as a seamount, has been discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Guatemala. The seamount is most likely a remnant of an ...

Ocean explorers mapping the seabed off the coast of Guatemala have discovered a mountain twice as high as the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, hiding deep beneath the waves. The ...

Although the Kama‘ehuakanaloa Seamount has been a little restless recently, new information about the undersea volcano is still sparse. The seamount’s most recent eruption was in 1996, and although ...

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A seamount in the northwest Pacific Ocean may be the largest volcano on earth, and could rival the largest in the solar system - the mighty Olympus Mons on Mars - oceanographers say. Tamu Massif, a ...

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