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The U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) recorded a magnitude 4.8 earthquakebeneath the Island of Hawai‘i on Sunday, August 11...

Satellite view of activity at summit and east rift zone.

No matter how old, a field geologist is a student. The teacher is the earth, the classroom the field area, and the textbook the deposit under study...

Kupapa‘u Point ocean entry weak, but still active.

As we watched tropical storm Flossie weaken and change course from the path that would have landed it directly on the Island of Hawai‘i, a collective...

When Mount St. Helens erupted explosively in 1980, most people were unaware that the U.S. ranks as one of the top countries in the world in the number...

If you’re inside a building (home or office) and the ground beneath it begins to shake, what should you do? Stand in a doorway? Run outside?

Observers of natural phenomena have long known that large earthquakes can trigger volcanic eruptions. For example, Charles Darwin reported that at...

Ocean entry at Kupapa‘u Point is still active.

Hawaiians have occupied the lower portion of the Hawaiian archipelago for at least 800 years. They experienced many more earthquakes and eruptions in...