Widely shared social media posts claimed a massive underwater volcano "the size of a city" was "showing signs it could erupt ...

Lava in Hawaii, seismic shaking in Alaska and underwater rumblings near Oregon. Scientists say it’s not the end of the world, ...

A seismologist from Seattle discussed recent volcanic activity across the United States. Here's what you should know.

The Axial Seamount volcano is located about 300 miles west of Astoria along the Juan de Fuca Ridge. Signs point to an eruption, but it's more curiosity than danger. Skip Navigation ...

Today, the Axial Seamount is the most well-instrumented underwater volcano in the world. If it blows in 2025 as predicted, scientists will collect a wealth of data that could advance the study of ...

Axial Seamount, the most active underwater volcano in the northeastern Pacific, is located about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, on the Juan de Fuca ridge. There, ...

An expansive seafloor monitoring network installed in 2014 has allowed Chadwick to monitor Axial Seamount in real time. Over the past few years, he's watched the volcano slowly grow. “We're ...

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 ...

Burns is embedded on a ship with Chadwick and other researchers, reporting on the serious scientific effort to study the Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano 300 miles off the Oregon coast.

Two other seamounts were studied over three days of expeditions: McCall, home to a large number of small deep-sea sharks, and Lo’ihi, an active volcano. Lo’Ihi has been extensively surveyed by ...