A submarine volcano erupted off the coast of Papua New Guinea, sending columns of steam three kilometers high, and scientists are now monitoring whether a new island is emerging from the sea.

Since the beginning of May, a volcano hidden beneath the waters of the Bismarck Sea, north of Papua New Guinea, has erupted and started to launch columns of steam nearly three kilometers high, in a spectacle that scientists are following with a question in the air, could a new island be emerging from the ocean right before our eyes.

A submarine volcano erupted off the coast of Papua New Guinea, sending columns of steam three kilometers high, and scientists are now monitoring whether a new island is emerging from the sea.. Since the beginning of May, a volcano hidden beneath the waters of the Bismarck Sea, north of Papua New Guinea, has erupted and started to launch columns of steam nearly three kilometers high, in a spectacle that scientists are following with a question in the air, could a new island be emerging from the ocean right before our eyes. The first signs did not come from a visible explosion, they came from tremors. Around May 8th, seismographs began to detect a swarm of small earthquakes in an underwater formation called Titan Ridge, in the southwestern Pacific. Shortly after, NASA satellites captured from space what the instruments were already indicati...