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Two weeks ago, readers of this column learned about the genesis of brown plumes and sudden gas release from Kīlauea's summit vent. This week we will...

Just before daybreak on May 24, 1969, a new eruptive fissure split open Kīlauea's east rift zone at its bend near `Alo`i Crater. During the previous 9...

This weekend marks the return to the Big Island of ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro. His shows encompass a musical variety from Hawaiian to bluegrass...

On the afternoon of January 6, 1949, scientists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, 32 km (20 miles) from Mauna Loa's summit, couldn't see the top of...

How do you know when a volcano is exploding? Just look at it? Seems like the obvious answer. This works if there are some eyes aimed at the volcano in...

During the past two weeks, two noteworthy earthquakes struck Kīlauea Volcanos south flank.

A magnitude-4.2 earthquake beneath the south flank of Kīlauea Volcano was recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO)...

If you see someone alongside the road next to a white disk-shaped antenna atop a yellow tripod, it could be a U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano...

Life in Goma—a city of about half a million on the eastern border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo—has been particularly difficult over the...

A magnitude-5.0 earthquake beneath the south flank of Kīlauea Volcano was recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO)...