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Axial Seamount, a mile-wide underwater volcano off the coast of Oregon, is showing signs of an imminent eruption. The volcano ...
Two massive tectonic plates (the Pacific and the Juan de Fuca plates) are constantly shifting, leading to a steady build-up ...
Axial Seamount, a major US volcano is set to erupt imminently. But what impact will the volcano eruption have on the surround ...
Learn more about the impending Axial Seamount eruption and how the organisms around the underwater volcano may benefit from ...
Though perhaps not well known to the general public, Axial Seamount is considered a key window into Earth's geology. Axial is ...
Researchers are watching the most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest and now say that the volcano is swelling up like a balloon full of lava.
Axial is significant because it sits atop the Juan de Fuca Ridge, the region where the enormous Pacific and Juan de Fuca tectonic plates pull apart, forming the ocean crust. "Over two-thirds of ...
The May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens in southern Washington claimed 57 lives and blasted the terrain of old-growth ...
The Axial Seamount, a monstrous mound of magma more than 1.6 kilometres wide, is sitting ominously quiet 1.4 kilometres ...
The mile-long roundtrip Cirque Rim is another paved trail and offers views of Port Angeles and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. More challenging trails include the Klahhane Ridge trail (3.8 miles each ...
It's fascinating and doesn't really pose a hazard.' Situated along the Juan de Fuca Ridge, a chain of undersea volcanoes ...