On May 2, 2008, the Chaitén volcano in Chile awoke with unexpected fury after more than 9,000 years of dormancy. The eruption blasted rocks and ash a dozen miles into the air, and then heavy rainfall ...

SAN FRANCISCO-Axial Seamount, a large underwater volcano about 470 kilometers (290 miles) offshore of the Oregon coast, is one of the most active volcanoes in the world-and one of the most intensively ...

An international team of scientists, including Oregon State University researchers, will return in April to study an active undersea volcano near the Mariana Islands northwest of Guam. Using a ...

Oceanographers using the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason discovered and recorded the first video and still images of a deep-sea volcano actively erupting molten lava on the seafloor. Jason, ...

Michael Cheadle, a UW associate professor of geology and geophysics, examines a rock sample recovered by a ROV submarine. Cheadle served as a geologist on the German research vessel R/V Sonne during ...

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