Axial Seamount is a young, 30 million-year-old undersea volcano in the Pacific Ocean off the U.S. coast, and it’s expected to ...

Advances in technology are helping explorers fulfill their purpose: Mapping the ocean floor in tiny detail for the first time.

Thanks to a dense array of sensors on the volcano’s summit and flanks, scientists know that Axial Seamount has been swelling with magma and getting taller, a sign that it’s ready to go off.

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds ... abyssal hills, small seamounts and continental margins. Abyssal hills — parallel ridges ...

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission instruments have allowed for the clearest satellite-produced map of the ...

A 3D map of Axial Seamount, 300 miles off the coast of Oregon. Scientists predict that it will erupt in 2025. Oregon State University The ocean floor hosts a staggering number of volcanoes.

An undersea volcano off the Oregon coast will likely erupt in 2025, and scientists can use the lessons learned from ...

After the 2015 eruption, Axial’s sea floor ... into the ocean and captures images and lava flow samples for the team back on ...

A team of ocean explorers spotted what looked like a “‘yellow brick road’ to the mythical city of Atlantis” while exploring the ocean floor in ... Ridge seamounts in the national monument.

Seamounts are towering underwater mountains, often formed by volcanic activity, that serve as essential habitats for a wide range of marine species. Stretching across the ocean floor, these ...

The Axial Seamount is not expected to threaten human population centres but it could help scientists forecast the eruption of ...

Extrapolated across all the oceans, there may be over a million submarine volcanoes worldwide, with approximately 75,000 of them rising more than half a mile above the ocean floor. Submarine volcanoes ...