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Breakouts active northeast of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō, no recent overall advancement

Ping! It's 2:12 a.m., and I (a USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientist) am still groggy as I read an automated text from HVO's computer system.

Dr. Jim Kauahikaua, a research geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, recently received a Citation for Meritorious...

The planet Venus has been especially prominent in the evening sky these past few weeks, joining Jupiter and a waxing Moon in a sparkling, slow-motion...

Scattered breakouts northeast of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō, but little forward progress

The U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) recorded a magnitude-5.2 earthquakebeneath the Island of Hawai‘i on Saturday, June 27...

USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists extract as much insight as possible from historic accounts of eruptions, and then combine that...

Scattered breakouts northeast of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō, but little forward advancement

The dramatic opening of the Overlook crater within Halema‘uma‘u Crater on March 19, 2008, heralded a new period of activity for long time Kīlauea...

One of the marvelous aspects of our modern, internet-connected world is the ability to share vast amounts of data at the speed of light across the...