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At 9:28 a.m., HST, on April 3, 2013, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory's (HVO) seismographic network recorded a magnitude-3.2 earthquake. This...

Kahauale‘a flow from Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō advancing northeast very slowly

Petrology, the study of the origin, or genesis, of rocks, is an important aspect of our multi-faceted approach to monitoring the current eruptions of...

Over the past six months, the pace of Kīlauea's 30-year-long ongoing eruption has quickened. This follows the quietest period—spanning most of 2012—of...

No, Tyra Banks hasn't been helping HVO install monitoring equipment at Kīlauea. We're talking about using computer models to investigate what is...

Several years ago, using sensitive new monitoring equipment located in shallow boreholes, scientific staff from UNAVCO, a member institution of the...

Kahauale‘a Cone and the Kahauale‘a flow.

Flows northeast of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō and views of the lava lake in Halema‘uma‘u.

It wasn't too long ago that tour buses shuttled hundreds of visitors a day to the Halema‘uma‘u parking lot.

February 2013 marked the first year of successful volcano monitoring and preparing for possible volcanic eruption for the California Volcano...