News tagged with undersea volcano
Scientists discover new eruption at undersea volcano, after successfully forecasting the event
A team of scientists just discovered a new eruption of Axial Seamount, an undersea volcano located about 250 miles off the Oregon coast – and one of the most active and intensely studied seamounts in ...
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Aug 09, 2011 |
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More deep-sea vents discovered
Scientists aboard the Royal Research Ship James Cook have discovered a new set of deep-sea volcanic vents in the chilly waters of the Southern Ocean. The discovery is the fourth made by the research team ...
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Feb 14, 2011 |
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British scientific expedition discovers world's deepest known undersea volcanic vents
A British scientific expedition has discovered the world's deepest undersea volcanic vents, known as 'black smokers', 3.1 miles (5000 metres) deep in the Cayman Trough in the Caribbean. Using a deep-diving ...
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Apr 11, 2010 |
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Undersea volcano threatens southern Italy: report
Europe's largest undersea volcano could disintegrate and unleash a tsunami that would engulf southern Italy "at any time", a prominent vulcanologist warned in an interview published Monday.
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Mar 29, 2010 |
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Expedition heads for world's deepest undersea volcanoes
A British scientific expedition is heading into the world's deepest volcanic rift, more than three miles beneath the waves in the Caribbean, to hunt for the deepest "black smoker" vents detected so far on ...
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Mar 25, 2010 |
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Marine scientists find massive volcanic cone, new deep-sea animal species
Scientists who have just returned from an expedition to an erupting undersea volcano near the Island of Guam report that the volcano appears to be continuously active, has grown considerably in size during ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 05, 2009 |
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Bent tectonics: How Hawaii was bumped off
More than 80 undersea volcanoes and a multitude of islands are dotted along the Hawaii-Emperor seamount chain like pearls on a necklace. A sharp bend in the middle is the only blemish. The long-standing explanation for this ...
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Apr 03, 2009 |
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Major Pacific earthquake prompts tsunami warning
A major 7.9-magnitude earthquake has shaken the South Pacific nation of Tonga and sending people in low lying areas of Fiji fleeing for higher ground after a tsunami warning, according to officials.
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Mar 20, 2009 |
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Tongan inspection team heads to undersea volcano
(AP) -- Scientists sailed Thursday to inspect an undersea volcano that has been erupting for days near Tonga - shooting smoke, steam and ash thousands of feet (meters) into the sky above the South Pacific ...
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Mar 19, 2009 |
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