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Which way would you drive if you lived on the on the flank of an active volcano with lava headed your way? This question is based on real-life events...

Dense glassy spatter erupted from Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō in 1998

The home of over 5 million breeding seabirds, Laysan Island is an uninhabited Hawaiian atoll formed from coral deposits atop a 20 million-year-old...

An under-appreciated and poorly understood aspect of Mauna Loa's eruptive activity is the presence of explosion debris on the east and west sides of...

Large and colorful flames sometimes play from vents on Kīlauea volcano. These flames, which range from yellowish orange to greenish blue and reach as...

The 1955 eruption in lower Puna, described in last week's column, was destructive. About 1,580 hectares (3,900 acres) were covered by 108 million...

Tomorrow, February 28, marks the 45th anniversary of the start of the 1955 eruption on Kīlauea's lower east rift zone. This was the first eruption of...

A swarm of shallow earthquakes began on Kīlauea's upper east rift zone at 1342 this afternoon.

Annual rainfall totals on the windward slopes of Mauna Loa and Kīlauea average up to nearly 10 meters (300 inches), yet there are no perennial streams...

Haleakalā, the volcano that forms East Maui, had higher summit elevations in its glorious past. Today the volcano's highest point is 10,023 feet, but...