It is, of course, an underwater volcano – the youngest, in fact, in the Cobb–Eickelberg Seamount chain in which it resides. That position is the result of tectonic movements over what’s ...

Axial Seamount rises almost a 0.6 miles ... latest in a series of large volcanoes built by movement over the earth’s crust over a deeper 'hot-spot' known as the Cobb-Eikelberg hotspot.

Axial Seamount, a submarine volcano 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, could erupt for the first time since 2015, spewing “very fluid lava” into the sea where scientists were recording more ...

Three hundred miles off the Oregon coast and 4,900 feet beneath the Pacific Ocean, Axial Seamount—one of the Pacific Northwest's most active submarine volcanos—is showing signs of eruption.

A seamount nearly twice the height of the world’s tallest building has been discovered on the ocean floor near Guatemala — and serves as a biodiversity hot spot. CNN values your feedback 1.