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Rising summit lava lake level improves views of spattering

Lower level of Kīlauea's summit lava lake exposes vent wall

As part of Volcano Awareness Month, our January Volcano Watch articles are exploring the U.S. Geological Survey's volcano observatories and their...

November 21 breakout remains active and Kamokuna ocean entry continues

It's January 2017, and, in addition to wishing you Hau‘oli Makahiki Hou (Happy New Year), the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) welcomes you to...

Ongoing activity at Kamokuna ocean entry

Kamokuna lava delta collapse also takes part of old sea cliff

As the East Rift Zone eruption begins its 35th year, let's review what happened over the past 12 months.

In 1888, Tavernier went one step further and created what we would now call a virtual reality depiction of Kīlauea volcano—the "Panorama of Kīlauea,"...

Have you ever wondered why Kīlauea Volcano's current lava flow is called the "61g" flow? To explain, we must go back to the beginning of the ongoing...