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Daily updates about ongoing eruptions, recent images and videos of summit and East Rift Zone volcanic activity, maps, and data about recent earthquakes in Hawaii are posted on the HVO website. 

Volcano Watch is a weekly article and activity update written by U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and colleagues.

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - July 7, 2016

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - July 7, 2016

Flow front slowly advancing across coastal plain

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - July 6, 2016

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - July 6, 2016

Flow front more than halfway across coastal plain

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - July 5, 2016

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - July 5, 2016

Flow front continues across coastal plain

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - July 2, 2016

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - July 2, 2016

Flow front starting to advance across coastal plain

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Volcano Watch — Research of great gravity at Kīlauea reveals surprising insights

Volcano Watch — Research of great gravity at Kīlauea reveals surprising insights

Readers of Volcano Watch might recall past articles that have described various ways in which the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) studies and...

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - June 30, 2016

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - June 30, 2016

Flow front spreads out at base of pali

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - June 29, 2016

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - June 29, 2016

Flow front reaches base of pali, burning vegetation

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - June 28, 2016

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - June 28, 2016

Channelized ‘A‘ā flow at top of Pūlama pali

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - June 27, 2016

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - June 27, 2016

Typical lava lake activity at Kīlauea's summit, slowly rising lake level

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Volcano Watch — Re-thinking Kīlauea Volcano’s early known eruptive history

Volcano Watch — Re-thinking Kīlauea Volcano’s early known eruptive history

The engagement of written history and geology, two ordinarily separated academic disciplines, has—once more—proven unexpectedly fruitful in our...

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - June 23, 2016

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - June 23, 2016

Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō lava flow continues advancing downslope

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Volcano Watch — Kīlauea Volcano's new lava flows: the latest chapter in the dynamic history of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō

Volcano Watch — Kīlauea Volcano's new lava flows: the latest chapter in the dynamic history of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō

Early on the morning of May 24, 2016, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists were alerted by text message that a tiltmeter on the Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō cone...

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