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January 3, 2013, marks the 30th anniversary of Kīlauea's ongoing Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō eruption. Simplifying the past three decades into a single short article...

To the scientists who monitor the Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō crater, the scene in this photo seems familiar. A rising lava lake forms a symmetrical, perched lava pond...

'Tis the season for holiday travel, & in this week's Volcano Watch, we will visit El Chichón Volcano, in Chiapas, Mexico. While there are some notable...

Ocean entry and coastal plain breakouts remain active.

It is natural for most people, including scientists, to think that the aim of a volcano observatory is to observe and measure ongoing activity...

After years of fund-raising, Thomas Jaggar, Jr., finally got the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) up and running at Kīlauea Volcano in January 1912...

Although Kīlauea's eruptive activity has been relatively uneventful the past 11 months, the consensus at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) is...

An earthquake of magnitude-4.3 was recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory on November 24, 2012 at 17:59 HST.

 

As we enter the 2012 holiday season, Kīlauea Volcano's continuing eruptions in Halema‘uma‘u at the summit and at Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō on the middle east rift...

Thermal images of Peace Day flow on coastal plain.