Krakatau, a volcanic island in Indonesia, killed more than 30,000 people when it erupted in 1883. One might assume that ...

The most powerful volcanic eruption of the last century caused massive changes to the ocean floor, according to newly ...

Bill Chadwick has forecast an Axial Seamount eruption correctly once before, and he is now working through his second attempt ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On land, a volcanic eruption is dramatic—columns of ash, fountains of lava, a complete remaking of the terrain. But terrestrial ...

Lord Howe Island sits about 600 kilometres off the New South Wales coast, a crescent of rainforest and sea cliffs that draws visitors for its spectacular beaches and its unique birdlife. Few realise ...

An eruption of a submarine volcano called Funka Asane in the Ogasawara island chain was detected on March 27, prompting a ...

Some volcanoes are far stranger than anything most people imagine. One contains a lake more acidic than battery acid, another erupts black lava that flows almost like oil, and scientists even filmed ...

The Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano off the Pacific northwest coast, has been showing signs of an impending eruption, researchers at Oregon State University said The volcano has seen an increase ...

More than two kilometres beneath the surface of the Pacific, off the coast of Oregon, an active underwater volcano has been ...

Learn more about the research team that discovered a submarine landslide in the Aleutian Trench, and how it may have contributed to a tsunami that devastated parts of Alaska and Hawaii. Following an 8 ...

I don't have a lot of information on today's installment of Sea-Floor Sunday. I simply was searching around on the internet for interesting images. I found these from a great site that summarizes a ...

The Axial Seamount has been dubbed the “most active submarine volcano” in the region Craig Tuttle/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group via Getty The Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano off ...