Volcano Watch

As many of you die-hard eruption fans already know, lava is no longer entering the ocean, for the first time since last May. The tube leading to the...

Every year about Super Bowl time, Dick Fiske and Tim Rose, volcanologists from the Smithsonian Institution, join HVO's staff for 2-3 weeks to...

At dawn on January 17, 2002, the residents of Goma, a city of 500,000 along the eastern border of the Republic of Congo, awoke to glowing red skies...

In one of the most ambitious volcano-monitoring efforts ever undertaken, scientists of the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) are moving ahead with...

The 1859 eruption of Mauna Loa began in the evening of January 23. Following a brief summit eruption, an outbreak occurred high on Mauna Loa's...

At this new calendar year, we welcome to our staff at the U S Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory our newest volcano watcher, Dr. Peter...

It is hard to believe that the Pu`u `O`o eruption became 19 years old on January 3. 

Haleakalā volcano, on Maui, is still in its postshield stage of volcanic evolution, as determined by 50 new isotopic ages. The volcano was long...

"When you can't breathe, nothing else matters." The motto of the American Lung Association resonates for many of us who live on the island of Hawai'i...

Early next month, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) will commemorate the ninetieth anniversary of its founding. On January 17, 1912, Thomas A...