The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel May 21, 2026 • 14:15

Scientists Mapping the Mediterranean for the First Time Found an Active Structure Still Moving Deep Under the Seafloor - The Daily Galaxy

By Arezki Amiri

Scientists Mapping the Mediterranean for the First Time Found an Active Structure Still Moving Deep Under the Seafloor - The Daily Galaxy

A routine seafloor scan near Sicily caught something that wasn't supposed to exist. What surfaced in the data rewrites maps and forces experts to rethink the risks.

A geophysicist stared at his screen aboard the research vessel METEOR. What he saw should not have been there. Barely six kilometers from the southwestern coast of Sicily, a rocky structure emerged f… [+6496 chars]

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