Tamu Massif is only about 25% smaller than Olympus Mons , one of the largest volcanoes on the planet Mars . The bathymetric map below provides a scale reference to Olympus Mons on the bottom right ...

That means Tamu Massif isn’t really a shield volcano. In actuality, it appears to be a colossal collection of 19-mile-thick oceanic crust, which is four times thicker than the global average.

The discovery of Tamu Massif, a gigantic volcano located about 1,000 miles east of Japan, made big news in 2013 when researchers reported it was the largest single volcano documented on earth ...

Tamu Massif is an extinct volcano in the Pacific Ocean, around 1,000 miles east of Japan. It covers an area of 120,000 square miles—roughly the size of New Mexico.

Covering an area of 120,000 square miles, which makes it about the size of New Mexico or the British Isles, the formation dubbed Tamu Massif is one of the biggest ever found, according to a study ...

Tamu Massif covers an area of about 120,000 square miles. By comparison, Hawaii’s Mauna Loa - the largest active volcano on Earth - is approximately 2,000 square miles, or roughly 2 percent the ...

Covering an area of around 5,100 square kilometers (1,969 square miles), Mauna Loa is just about 1.6 percent the size of Tamu Massif, but it’s significantly taller.

Back in 2013, Tamu Massif -- a giant underwater volcano off the coast of Japan -- stole Hawaii's crown as the largest single volcano in the world. But it's not a true volcano at all.

Dubbed Tamu Massif, the volcano is part of the Shatsky Rise, a deep plateau on the floor of the Pacific located around 1600km east of Japan, they said. It comprises a single, immense, rounded dome ...

Tamu Massif’s size may trace back to the unusual circumstances of its origin. Around 145 million years ago lava began pouring out on the seafloor where three mid-ocean ridges came together in a ...

Recently, University of Houston geophysics professor, Will Sager, and his students returned from a 36-day research cruise to Tamu Massif, the largest known single volcano on planet Earth. It sits ...