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On April 2, 2011, at 11:11 a.m. HST, a magnitude-3.6 earthquake occurred 9 km (5 mi) southwest of Volcano Village. Following such an earthquake, the...

Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō continues to host a small lava lake at the bottom of the crater.

"Trial by fire" wasn’t how Wes Thelen planned to start his job as the new Seismic Network Manager for the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, but that...

By now, everyone is familiar with the magnitude-9.0 (M9.0) earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan on March 11, 2011, and arrived at Hawai‘i...

In early March, a new phase of Kīlauea's east rift zone eruption occurred as lava erupted in the Kamoamoa area, between Nāpau Crater and Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō...

Lava reappeared in Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō crater, covering the floor with a small lava lake.

HAWAI‘I ISLAND, Hawai‘i — Following an almost 17-day pause in eruptive activity, lava is once again visible on Kīlauea Volcano's east rift zone...

HVO scientists were shaken out of their weekend routine when, at 1:42 p.m., on Saturday, March 5, 2011, the seismic tremor alarms started and, at 2:16...

The rapid draining of lava from the pit in Halema‘uma‘u on March 5 occasioned worst-case concerns of explosive eruptions at Kīlauea's summit. Thank...

Measuring the thickness of an ‘a‘ā flow produced by the Kamoamoa fissure eruption.