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Kīlauea volcano began erupting within Halema‘uma‘u crater at the summit during the early morning of June 7. The eruption marks another in a series of...

In a recent “Volcano Watch” article, we learned about a remote sensing technique known as InSAR. This method of using satellite radar signals to...

Today we feature volcanoes that are outstanding in their fields - volcanic fields, that is!

Active volcanoes tell us their stories through earthquakes, deformation, gas emissions, and lava flows. We interpret those stories through myriad...

While the huge caldera-forming eruption of Long Valley was 767,000 years ago, between about 670,000 and 570,000 years ago uplift of the caldera's...

Several USGS data releases published in 2023 provide data on Kīlauea summit water lake present in Halemaʻumaʻu from 2019-2020, lava samples collected...

May 3rd, 2023, marked the fifth anniversary of the start of Kīlauea’s historic 2018 eruption that resulted in extensive lava flows from the East Rift...

Since May 11, 2023, a series of M5+ earthquakes and aftershocks have rattled the area around Lake Almanor, a reservoir about 20 miles (32 km)...

May 2023 marks the 99th anniversary of a sequence of explosive eruptions from Kīlauea's summit that occurred over 16 days from May 11–27, 1924. During...