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September is National Preparedness Month, a time to highlight the resources available to help you and your loved ones stay as safe as possible. 

Beautiful day on Kīlauea Volcano's East Rift Zone

To help determine the timing of eruptive activity, geologists use a radiocarbon age-dating technique. Collecting charcoal is the most common method...

While scattered references to "Old Faithful" can be found after 1916, the persistent lava fountain, which played at Kīlauea Volcano for a quarter of a...

Kīlauea lava flow buries more of the road

Kīlauea Volcano's summit lava lake puts on a good show today

Look! In the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane! Wait, run, it’s this week’s EarthWord!

Measuring how much lava is flowing through the 61g tube

New informational products about the health hazards of volcanic air pollution known as “vog,” are available through a new interagency partnership.

The explosive event at Halema‘uma‘u Crater's lava lake on August 6, 2016, was the latest in a series that began in 2008. It is useful to view the...