The enormous 3,600ft-tall volcano - named the Axial Seamount - sits around 5,000ft below the surface of the Pacific Ocean and looks set to erupt before the end of 2025, according to US-based ...

”It can’t do this forever.”The Axial Seamount—a volcano located 300 miles off the coast of Oregon and a mile underwater—is slowly showing signs of an impending eruption. Although less ...

Axial Seamount lies about 300 miles (470 km) off Oregon’s coast, deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. For years, it’s been closely watched through a high-tech network of underwater sensors and ...

Here's what to know. A 3D bathymetric map showing the shape and summit caldera of the Axial seamount, 300 miles off Oregon's coast. Warm colors indicate shallower depths, cool colors are deeper.

Axial Seamount is a large, young volcano located at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, about 480 kilometres west off the Oregon coast. Following its discovery in 1970, the volcano has become the ...

A huge underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean could erupt 'any day now', according to scientists. The Axial Seamount, a sleeping giant on the seabed off the coast of Oregon, is apparently getting ...

Before the 2015 eruption, Axial Seamount had last spilled lava over the seafloor in 2011—an eruption that scientists discovered completely by accident. Unlike volcanoes on land, submarine ...

Axial Seamount is closely monitored. It was chosen as the site of the world's first underwater volcano observatory. Now a constant stream of real time data is provided from the seafloor thanks to ...

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 the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

Axial Seamount has previously erupted in 1998, 2011, and 2015. Scientists have revealed the underwater giant had swollen to the size it was before its 2015 eruption, in November 2024.

A “fascinating” eruption is approaching as a sleeping giant underwater volcano stirs with seismic activity near America’s west coast. The seismic activity of Axial Seamount, a submerged ...