Ocean explorers mapping the seabed off the coast of Guatemala have discovered a mountain twice as high as the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, hiding deep beneath the waves. The 5,250 ...
Silent precursor to a violent eruption Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai is an oceanic volcano in the western Pacific Ocean in the Kingdom of Tonga. The seamount was created by the subduction of the Pacific ...
COURTESY USGS A swarm of small earthquakes struck Kama’ehuakanaloa volcano, formerly called Lo’ihi Seamount, off Hawaii island’s southeast coast today. Scores of small earthquakes—the largest at ...
On October 2021, the U.S. Navy's Seawolf-class submarine USS Connecticut collided with an underwater seamount in the South China Sea while traveling at high speed in poorly charted waters.