“The eruptions are pretty big,” Bill Chadwick, a volcanologist at Oregon State University who studies the fire-spouting formation, told KOIN. Located 300 miles off Oregon’s Coast, the Axial ...

Did the eruption of Thera, or Santorini result in the Ten Plagues of Egypt, such as the transformation of the Nile into blood? Credit: Sebastià Giralt. CC BY 2.0/flickr The Bible tells the story of ...

Axial Seamount's ongoing inflation has mirrored pre-eruption levels, leading volcanologists to anticipate an imminent eruption. Following the 2015 eruption, Axial's seafloor initially rose at a ...

and took a full decade to recover to pre-eruption levels. The tree line and the snow line fell to 10,000 feet lower than where they are today, making most high elevations uninhabitable.

One of the world’s most active volcanoes is back in action.The Kilauea volcano at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is spewing lava once again, the seventh recorded episode in recent weeks.The ...

It last erupted in 2015 but has a history of more than 50 different eruptions over the last 800 years. The good news is that because the top of the volcano is still 4,500 feet below the ocean’s ...

Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption arguably took place in AD 79, killing up to 16,000 people in the Gulf of Naples, Italy. But more than 2,000 years before this, the 2,000ft volcano suffered ...

Scientists are predicting that a colossal underwater volcano, the Axial Seamount, could be on the verge of eruption. Located around 300 miles off the Oregon coast in the US, this mammoth natural ...

The only magmatic eruption was recorded in 1902, which produced small-volume mudflows on the upper slopes. The most recent one is the strongest in recent years. A pre- and post-eruption effect is the ...