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Kīlauea's 14-year-old east rift zone eruption continues. Episode 55, ongoing since February 24, 1997, is characterized by shifting vent locations...

What volcano in the United States has been the most deadly since the country was founded? Mount St. Helens? Mount Rainier? Lassen Peak? Good guesses...

Shortly before 07:00 a.m. on the morning of June 2, 1997, the seismic network of the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory began to...

Great rift zones define the divergent boundaries in the mosaic of mobile tectonic plates that form the Earth's crust. From these divergent plate...

Once again, with the end of the spring semester, the Center for the Study of Active Volcanoes (CSAV) at the University of Hawaii at Hilo has begun its...

A few evenings ago the staff of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory took a field trip to Prince Kuhio Plaza to see the latest disaster film, VOLCANO...

Many residents have noticed the bright orange glow coming from Kīlauea's eruption site on recent nights. Judging from the phone calls we receive at...

The Mauna Ulu eruption on Kīlauea's east rift zone began 28 years ago this month, on May 24, 1969. For the next 2.5 years eruption was almost...

Hilo is situated on lava flows from two of the five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawai`i. However, most of the surface flows one drives by (and...

Regular readers of this column should not have been surprised last week by the news article stating that the earthquake risk on the Big Island is as...