A mysterious and highly active undersea volcano off the Pacific Coast could erupt by the end of this year, scientists say. Nearly a mile deep and about 700 miles northwest of San Francisco, the ...

The volcano is not very well-known among the public because scientists only discovered its existence in the 1980s. Since its discovery, the volcano has erupted three times-in 1988, 2011, and 2015.

The Axial Seamount, an undersea volcano located about 700 miles northwest of San Francisco, could erupt by the end of this year, according to scientists. Discovered in the 1980s, Axial Seamount is the ...

Smoke billows from the mouth of Mt. Shasta like a thunderous cough. Within moments, clear skies turn gray, and the sun vanishes behind thick, shifting layers of volcanic gas and ash. Visitors snap ...

California’s volcanic giants are hard to miss. Mount Shasta looms over the Oregon border. Lassen Peak, the southernmost active volcano in the Cascade Range, erupted just over a century ago, blasting ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released several of its most striking images of 2025, homing in on extreme weather events that took place in California, Hawaii and Texas over the ...

LOS ANGELES — A mysterious and highly active undersea volcano off the Pacific Coast could erupt by the end of this year, scientists say. Nearly a mile deep and about 700 miles northwest of San ...

Rong-Gong Lin II is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times based in San Francisco who specializes in covering statewide earthquake safety issues and other natural disasters, public health and extreme ...

Imagine if we told you there is a massive volcano off the coast of California and that volcano is expected to erupt sometime this year. Are we in danger? And what could it mean for sea life? L.A.