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Characterizing earthquakes is one of the most important activities we do at the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO). Seismicity helps us monitor...

Typical spattering at the summit lava lake within Halema‘uma‘u Crater

Video release: New video footage of Kīlauea Volcano’s summit lava lake is now available as b-roll to news media outlets.

Continued spattering in Kīlauea's summit lava lake

Kamokuna ocean entry continues

Visitors to the Jaggar Museum and Ka‘ū Desert in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, struck by the appearance of three dark, symmetrical volcanic cones...

Halema‘uma‘u at dusk

The rise and fall of Kīlauea Volcano's summit lava lake

In early September 2016, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) monitoring instruments on Kīlauea began recording increased rates of inflation and...

Breakouts remain active on the coastal plain