1.   Loihi is probably the most studied underwater volcano in the world, but at present all its activity is unmonitored.

2.   These underwater volcanoes, known as black smokers, are home to a strange array of creatures found nowhere else, as well as to many species of archaea.

3.   Planned French A-bomb testing in the South Pacific could destabilize an underwater volcano and spread radioactivity from buried waste, a French scientist said Saturday.

4.   Because of the large faults and an underwater volcano nearby, Zelitsky supposes the structures sank because of a dramatic volcanic or seismological event thousands of years ago.

5.   Government officials have warned residents of the Northern Mariana Islands that a nearby underwater volcano is showing signs that it might erupt.

6.   Japanese geologists said Friday they have discovered large sulfide deposits inside rows of underwater volcanoes south of Tokyo that could contain vast amounts of gold and silver.

7.   Scientists from a joint German-New Zealand project leave Auckland on Sunday with a small submarine to resume a study of underwater volcanoes.

8.   Vast gold deposits may lie near underwater volcanoes.