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An underwater volcano near Tonga revealed how sediment spreads, disrupts marine life, and raises questions about deep-sea ...
An underwater volcano off the Oregon coast, Axial Seamount, is showing signs of imminent eruption, but scientists say it poses no threat to humans.
A team of scientists put together a global database of submarine mud volcanoes. Orders of magnitude more are still bubbling, ...
The history of an underwater volcano in Hawaii has been revealed by researchers in a new study. For the first time, scientists at the University of Hawaii (UH) have estimated how many eruptions ...
Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...
In addition, Axial is the best monitored deep-sea volcano in the world because of a fiber-optic cable sending real-time data from the caldera directly back to the Oregon coast.
The Axial seamount — with its three recent eruptions in 1998, 2011 and 2015 — has been more active than any volcano in the contiguous United States. In addition, Axial is the best monitored deep-sea ...
Scientists have witnessed the eruption of the deepest submarine volcano ever discovered, capturing for the first time video of fiery bubbles of molten lava as they exploded 4,000 feet (1,200 ...
Deep below the Pacific, a restless seafloor volcano off Oregon is showing signs it may soon stir again. Axial Seamount, a submarine volcano located nearly a mile beneath the ocean surface, is flexing ...
Scientists are predicting that a mile-deep volcano off the U.S. West Coast will erupt this year. The Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano located about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, is ...
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: a volcano scientist who does her work in the middle of the Pacific Ocean—at the ocean floor. That’s where you can find one UWM professor.