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For the last several years, scientists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) have made use of a satellite-monitoring method called InSAR, which...

Disaster movie fans may remember the 2000 film "The Perfect Storm," in which economic hardship drives a fishing boat to risk a late-season expedition...

How long is the warning between the first rumblings of a volcano and its eruption? This haunting question was raised anew with the eruption of the...

There's a new volcanology book available from a Hawai‘i-based volcanologist, the first in almost 40 years.

Like other volcano observatories, HVO devotes most of its resources to volcano monitoring, using time-tested methods that have been found to deliver...

Anyone looking at a map of the Pacific cannot help but be astounded by the feat of the first Polynesian navigators to these isolated islands of Hawai...

It may surprise some readers that the Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō eruption, now halfway through its 28th year of almost continuous activity, is not the longest-running...

Last week, Ken Honma bid farewell to friends and colleagues at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) as he retired from a U.S. Geological Survey...

More devastated forest and awesome views of ocean entry

Composite image showing the active flow front in Kalapana