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Underwater volcano off Oregon coast ‘ballooning’ with lava — and set to erupt for first time since 2015
They tend to inflate like a balloon in between eruptions. At Axial, the sea floor is actually rising, and that’s a big signal.” ...
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Researchers Find Unexpected Brine Deposits Under Fault in Ocean Floor
Being a geophysicist can sometimes feel like being a detective —uncovering clues, and then building a case based on the evidence. In a new article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team ...
An Underwater Volcano Off Oregon Coast Could Erupt Soon—Here’s What Scientists Say
The Axial Seamount is one of the most active but least well-known volcanoes in the Pacific and all signs point to it erupting ...
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Deep-sea volcano off Oregon is rumbling again, likely to erupt anytime soon
Perched on a hot spot along the Juan de Fuca Ridge, the volcano is steadily inflating with magma, raising  the frequency of ...
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UW: Underwater volcano off Oregon coast could erupt any day
An underwater volcano 300 miles off the coast of Oregon is displaying signs of ... is more than 4,900 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Axial Seamount is approximately 3,600 feet ...
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Can a tsunami occur in Washington? Yes, here’s how
The Tonga tsunami in January 2022 was the result of a strong undersea volcanic eruption that sent tsunami waves across the entire Pacific Ocean basin ... local earthquake faults such as the ...
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Trump allows commercial fishing in previously banned waters of the Pacific Ocean
April 17 (UPI) --U.S. commercial fishers can operate in the formerly off-limits Pacific Remote Islands Marine ... fishing season canceled off coasts of Oregon, California U.S. commercial fishing ...
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Along the 46th parallel: How the Washington constitution swung a hunting case near the Washington-Oregon border
Shawn Humphrey had always wanted to kill a big bull elk in the Wenaha unit in northeastern Oregon ... from the Pacific Ocean, the line goes up the middle of the Columbia River until near Fort ...
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New study: Cascadia quake near Seattle could cause land to sink 7 feet fast
A big earthquake along the Cascadia fault could cause Washington's coastal lands to suddenly drop nearly 7 feet, instantly ...
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This continent is slowly splitting apart, creating a new ocean
Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as ... the San Andreas fault sits between the North American plate, which is sliding south, and the Pacific plate, which ...
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44 years later, confirmed — Strange signals detected at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean
A group of scientists ventured into an adventure and performed one of the first deep-sea mining activities on the Pacific Ocean’s seabed, and this was in the year 1979. In doing so, they did not ...
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Firefly Aerospace and Lockheed Martin joint launch suffers mishap and safely crashes into the Pacific Ocean near Antartica Tuesday
During the Mission in a Booster launch Tuesday, there was mishap during the first-stage separation and the rocket and payload aboard safely crashed into the Pacific Ocean north of Antartica.