Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: a volcano scientist who does her work in the middle of the Pacific Ocean—at the ...

In 2019, researchers spotted what they believed to be a 'petit-spot volcano' on the Pacific plate. These 'petit-spot' volcanoes are young phenomena that come into being due to fissures occurring ...

A 2022 satellite photo shows a large plume of discolored water rising from the undersea Kavachi volcano, during an eruption ...

"Ocean volcanoes, when they are unstable, can collapse catastrophically and generate a tsunami," said Christelle Wauthier, associate professor of geosciences at Penn State and co-author of the study.

"Ocean volcanoes, when they are unstable, can collapse catastrophically and generate a tsunami," said Christelle Wauthier, associate professor of geosciences at Penn State and co-author of the study.

Located about 300 miles off the Oregon coast in the US, this mammoth volcano is over a mile long, stands 1,000 meters tall and lies less than a mile beneath the Pacific Ocean's surface.

The volcanoes that form where tectonic plates are pulling apart are now seen at midocean ridges, which are places under the ocean where two pieces of crust move away from each other. Two major ...

The letter did not say. Along with carbon dioxide, these volcanoes and the 40,000-miles of mid-ocean mountain ridges pump enormous amounts of heat into the ocean; we don’t have a good handle on ...

With eruptions in 1998, 2011, and 2015, the volcano serves as a perfect laboratory, and experts expect an eruption by the end of 2025. The Pacific Ocean’s ‘Ring of Fire’ is the most ...

Several past eruptions were characterized by similar lava fountaining episodes, including at the start of the Puʻuʻōʻō ...

Now, scientists believe the incredible event may have also triggered countless underwater volcanoes to spontaneously ... set off volcanic activity on the ocean floor, causing magma to gush from ...

This edition looks at the birth, growth and death of an island, with images of an erupting underwater volcano. Show more Witness the birth, growth and death of an island in the greatest ocean on ...