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Huge underwater volcano is 'swelling and about to blow' at any moment The mile-wide Axial Seamount is 300 miles off the coast of Oregon (Picture: Cabaniss, H.E., Gregg, P.M., Nooner, S.L. et al) ...
A volcano in the Pacific Northwest is showing signs of re-awakening. The Axial Seamount is a mile-wide underwater volcano that sits 300 miles off the coast of Oregon and more than 4,900 feet below ...
RPI researchers delighted when underwater volcano opened up beneath them By Kathleen Moore, Staff Writer June 22, 2025 ...
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 ...
US News Underwater volcano off Oregon coast ‘ballooning’ with lava — and set to erupt for first time since 2015 By Shane Galvin Published May 10, 2025, 1:30 a.m. ET ...
An active underwater volcano in the the Pacific Ocean off the Oregon Coast is predicted to erupt in 2025. The Axial Seamount volcano is located nearly a mile beneath the sea approximately 300 ...
Underwater volcano poses no threat to people Since this volcano is well off the coast and deep underwater, it won’t pose any threats to humans. It is about one mile underwater.
An underwater volcano in the Pacific Northwest is expected to erupt sometime this year for the first time in 11 years — and it could stir up lots of activity for marine life in the area.
The 2022 underwater Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai eruption, one of the most powerful in modern history, reached all the way into the atmosphere and beyond — shaking space as far up as satellites ...
Axial Seamount is a massive underwater volcano about 300 miles off the Oregon coast and nearly 4,900 feet below the ocean. It could erupt in 2025. Skip Navigation ...
An underwater volcano in the Pacific Northwest is expected to erupt sometime this year for the first time in 11 years — and it could stir up lots of activity for marine life in the area.