The highest peak here is more than 7,500 feet tall. Seamounts generally form when volcanic mountains rise up from the seafloor but fail to reach the surface (those that break the surface become ...

The colossal Axial Seamount, situated approximately 300 miles off the coast of Oregon in the US, is over a mile long, stands 1,000 meters tall and lies less than a mile beneath the surface of the ...

Axial Seamount, a massive underwater volcano located nearly 300 miles off the Oregon coast, is showing signs of an imminent eruption. This 3,600-foot-tall volcano, which spans 1.25 miles across ...

The volcano, formerly called Loihi Seamount, is about 22 miles off the Big Island’s southeastern coast and will one day become the youngest of the Hawaiian Islands when it finally grows tall ...