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Giant “stealth” magma surge triggered thousands of earthquakes beneath Atlantic island

Science Daily · May 14, 2026, 1:50 PM

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Deep beneath Portugal’s São Jorge Island, a massive surge of magma silently pushed upward from more than 20 kilometers underground in 2022, triggering thousands of earthquakes and briefly raising fears of a volcanic eruption. Scientists discovered that the molten rock climbed astonishingly fast — en

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