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Last week, Earth Scientists from all over the world gathered for the annual American Geophysical Union fall meeting in San Francisco. Researchers...

Hawai`i Island residents and visitors eagerly awaiting the season's first snowfall were rewarded this past week. By Wednesday morning, a light dusting...

An earthquake of magnitude-4.7 (preliminary) was recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory on December 7 at 1:42 a.m. HST...

East Lae`apuki and Pu`u `O`o

What might a future eruption in a residential neighborhood be like? We can get our best answer by examining past eruptions in the area such as the...

East Lae`apuki after delta collapse

A light earthquake of magnitude-4.5 (preliminary) was recorded by the seismographic network at the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano...

The entire active lava bench at East Lae‘apuki on the south coast of Kīlauea volcano collapsed on November 28, 2005.

Lava delta collapse at East Lae‘apuki.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina's devastation of the Gulf coast, there has been much discussion of the value of planning for worst-case...