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The lava lake deep within Kīlauea's currently active summit vent is known for being a bit capricious.

Many people visit the Footprints Area on the southwest rift zone of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park. If lucky, they find human footprints indenting a...

Footsteps. Jumping up and down. Wind, machinery, traffic, surf. Many things shake the ground.

A magnitude-4.3 earthquake occurred at 6:34 p.m., H.S.T., on Tuesday, November 23, and was located between Makena, Maui, and Kaho‘olawe at an...

E.T., the stranded alien botanist from the blockbuster 1982 movie, may have been the most popular extraterrestrial in recent history; but he had no...

The Puhi-o-Kalaikini lava delta in Kalapana abruptly shed its western edge last week—no injuries or deaths this time. The Puhi-o-Kalaikini lava delta...

The eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano in April created what has been called the worst disruption of European and global air transport...

In 2003, almost two-thirds of the Kahuku Ranch in south Hawai‘i Island was purchased by the Nature Conservancy and Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park...

Hawai‘i is the quintessential "hotspot." The geologic definition of a "hotspot" is that region of the Earth beneath an area that has experienced high...

Humans seem to have a limited ability to remember disasters. Some researchers who study disaster preparedness and risk mitigation speculate that...