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Although researchers did predict the Axial Seamount would erupt in 2025, people on the Pacific coast shouldn't worry about ...
Known as Axial Seamount, it’s the most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest – though one most people haven’t heard of because it lies about 300 miles offshore and just under a mile ...
Topline The Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano located off the Pacific Northwest coast that last erupted in 2015 and spewed several miles of lava along the seafloor, could be preparing to erupt ...
Axial Seamount, a massive underwater volcano located nearly 300 miles off the Oregon coast, is showing signs of an imminent eruption. This 3,600-foot-tall volcano, which spans 1.25 miles across ...
“Axial Seamount is a great natural laboratory for learning about volcanic eruptions,” said William Chadwick, one of the lead authors from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...
Expedition leader Akel Kevis-Stirling prepares to deploy the remotely operated vehicle Jason to explore the Axial Seamount, a sub-sea volcano about 250 miles off Oregon's coast. Jes Burns / OPB ...
Axial Seamount, an active underwater volcano located about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon and Washington, appears to be erupting -- after two scientists had forecast that such an event would ...
This depth map shows the raised outer edge of Axial Seamount’s central caldera in deep red. Lava from the 2015 eruption is outlined in green. Lava from a 2011 eruption is outlined in blue.
The caldera and rift zones of the Axial Seamount off the coast of Oregon, depicted as a computer generated 3D oblique view using seafloor bathymetry. The red zone is the shallowest area, and the ...
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. As a ...
The Axial Seamount, shown here through an underwater mapping method called swatch bathymetry, is expected to erupt some time in 2025. The volcano is located about 300 miles off the Oregon coast.