Volcano Watch

E.T., the stranded alien botanist from the blockbuster 1982 movie, may have been the most popular extraterrestrial in recent history; but he had no...

The Puhi-o-Kalaikini lava delta in Kalapana abruptly shed its western edge last week—no injuries or deaths this time. The Puhi-o-Kalaikini lava delta...

The eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano in April created what has been called the worst disruption of European and global air transport...

In 2003, almost two-thirds of the Kahuku Ranch in south Hawai‘i Island was purchased by the Nature Conservancy and Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park...

Hawai‘i is the quintessential "hotspot." The geologic definition of a "hotspot" is that region of the Earth beneath an area that has experienced high...

Humans seem to have a limited ability to remember disasters. Some researchers who study disaster preparedness and risk mitigation speculate that...

Seventy-six years ago—on October 8, 1934—a 33-day-long eruption in Halema‘uma‘u Crater came to an end. This eruption began after almost three years of...

"Volcano Watch is a weekly article and activity update written by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory." These...

For the last several years, scientists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) have made use of a satellite-monitoring method called InSAR, which...

Disaster movie fans may remember the 2000 film "The Perfect Storm," in which economic hardship drives a fishing boat to risk a late-season expedition...