PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – One of the most active volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest is waking up — leading some scientists to believe it will erupt in 2025. The volcano, named Axial Seamount, sits on ...

Far off the Oregon Coast, a restless underwater volcano has been rattling the seafloor with swarms of tiny earthquakes, ...

May 24 (UPI) --The small tectonic plate Juan de Fuca is born just a few hundred miles off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. But the plate's birthplace lies more than a mile beneath the ocean surface ...

An active underwater volcano 300 miles off the Oregon Coast that was predicted to erupt in 2025 is now expected to erupt ...

Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, approximately 300 miles off Oregon's coast, Axial Seamount is experiencing extraordinary ...

On March 6, Ocean Networks Canada, which operates cabled observatories in the northeastern Pacific, detected over 2,000 low-intensity earthquakes in a single day, peaking at around 200 quakes per hour ...

ABSTRACTEndeavour Segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge is one of three Integrated Study Sites for the Ridge 2000 Program. It is a remarkable, dynamic environment hosting five major hydrothermal fields, ...

A North American team of scientists has documented for the first time a new phenomenon -- the creation of a void in the seafloor that draws in -- rather than expels -- surrounding seawater. The ...

The Cascadia Initiative deployed 70 seabed seismometers at 120 sites covering the entire Juan de Fuca plate to record mantle movement relative to the plate. Team members have confirmed what ...

ABSTRACT: Biotic communities in highly variable, frequently perturbed habitats are usually expected to be structured mainly by abiotic factors. In the highly variable deep-sea hydrothermal vent ...