With eruptions in 1998, 2011, and 2015, the volcano serves as a perfect laboratory, and experts expect an eruption by the end ...

Bill Chadwick, a geophysicist at Oregon State University ... have largely occurred on Axial Seamount’s eastern flank. Underwater volcanoes like Axial Seamount rarely threaten human lives ...

The volcano, named Axial Seamount, sits on the Juan de Fuca Ridge about 300 miles off the coast of Astoria, Oregon. In the last 30 years, Axial has erupted three times — in 1998, 2011 ...

Earth bubbles and broils beneath an underwater peak called Axial Seamount, located 480 kilometers (300 miles) off Oregon's ...

Volcano Wake-up Time That seismic activity is a harbinger. “An eruption does not seem imminent, but it can't do this forever," Chadwick and his colleague, University of North Carolina geophysicist ...

The unpredictable nature of volcanoes has made it difficult to develop accurate methods to anticipate eruptions, especially those located under the sea. However, a team of researchers from Oregon ...

A massive underwater volcano known as Axial Seamount could erupt soon, completely reshaping the floor of the Pacific Ocean.

A miles-wide volcano off Oregon’s coast could erupt “soon” say scientists who’ve been tracking it for decades. The Axial Seamount is a massive undersea volcano that reaches more than 3,600 ...

Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, nearly a mile underwater, scientists are keeping a close watch on a very active underwater volcano ... a research associate at Oregon State University's Hatfield ...