One of the Pacific Ocean’s lesser-known volcanoes will blow its vent in the coming months, causing 10,000 earthquakes in one day. Here’s what scientists are saying.

A recent study has pinpointed the origin of a 120-million-year-old 'super-eruption,' shedding new light on Earth's intricate ...

A researcher monitoring Axial Seamount, 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, says the eruption is expected to happen before the ...

Two massive tectonic plates (the Pacific and the Juan de Fuca plates) are constantly shifting, leading to a steady build-up ...

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Axial Seamount, a lesser known volcano more than 4,900 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, is formed by a hot spot, with plumes of molten material rising up into the crust, creating ...

For years, scientists wondered whether the southern Pacific Ocean’s Louisville hotspot—an area where hot and chemically distinct material from deep inside the Earth rises to the surface to create ...

On top of that, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) reported a spike in gas emissions, including a superheated mix of ...

Holidaymakers have been evacuated from a popular tourist hot spot in Iceland amid fears of a volcanic eruption. The alarm was raised after lava began flowing from the Sunddhnúksgígar volcano, with an ...

The volcano, known as Axial Seamount, is located nearly 1 mile (1.4 kilometers) underwater on a geological hot spot, where searing gushes of molten rock rise from Earth’s mantle and into the crust.