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There's a new volcanology book available from a Hawai‘i-based volcanologist, the first in almost 40 years.

Like other volcano observatories, HVO devotes most of its resources to volcano monitoring, using time-tested methods that have been found to deliver...

Anyone looking at a map of the Pacific cannot help but be astounded by the feat of the first Polynesian navigators to these isolated islands of Hawai...

It may surprise some readers that the Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō eruption, now halfway through its 28th year of almost continuous activity, is not the longest-running...

Last week, Ken Honma bid farewell to friends and colleagues at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) as he retired from a U.S. Geological Survey...

More devastated forest and awesome views of ocean entry

Composite image showing the active flow front in Kalapana

Most readers will see the headline and think it refers to events in Kalapana this past week. The title is actually from a back page story in the...

A surge of lava that broke out and view of lava cascading down the sea cliff

Second finger of lava overtopped the Hakuma horst