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

HVO scientists conducted a Kīlauea summit overflight on May 23, 2023 and the annual Mauna Loa GPS campaign is underway.

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

A Final Environmental Assessment (EA) and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the USGS Hilo Research Facility has been completed and is...

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...

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...

HVO scientists conducted a Kīlauea summit overflight on May 3, 2023. The Kīlauea Seismic Imaging Project continues, as more nodes are deployed in the...

Five years ago, volcanic activity at Kīlauea dramatically changed when magma intruded into the lower East Rift Zone (LERZ). What happened at Kīlauea...

HVO scientists conducted  Halema‘uma‘u fieldwork and a Kīlauea summit overflight on May 3, 2023. The Kīlauea Seismic Imaging Project continues, as...

The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) was founded in 1912. Today, over 111 years later, HVO is one of five volcano observatories supported by the U.S...