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What's in a name? In geology, plenty. Some of the biggest controversies erupt over terminology. For example, HVO scientists like to argue over terms...

Day after Thanksgiving on the PKK flow

While breakouts in the coastal area below Pu`u `O`o, attract renewed attention from scientists and visitors alike, seismologists at the U.S...

Pu`u `O`o and Lae`apuki

Liquid rock more than meets its match

Scientists have all sorts of ways to remotely monitor volcanoes. Here at Hawaiʻian Volcano Observatory, for example, we use seismometers, GPS...

Showery...but c'est la vie

Various and sundry

Lava erupting from the Pu`u `O`o vent is again spilling into the sea and adding new land along Kīlauea's shoreline to the delight of red-rock junkies...

East Lae`apuki by daylight