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If you have followed the HVO daily updates or tuned in to the Webcams over the past few months, you have probably seen that activity in the vent of...

Dozens of small lava flows have moved down the pali and across the coastal plain of Kīlauea's south flank in the past several weeks as the nearly two...

Late in the evening on November 13, 1985, most of those living in the Colombian town of Armero, on the shores of the river Lagunillas, were in bed...

On October 8, 1909, an earthquake struck southeast of Zagreb, Croatia. Prior to this event, a number of seismographs had been installed in the region...

"Pahala Ash," named for the town of Pahala, refers to soil deposits along the southeast portion of the island of Hawai`i. Pahala Ash was described by...

A common saying in the real estate business is that three things matter regarding property: "location, location, location." The same might be said...

The West Hawai`i Today issue for September 11, 2009, contained a letter to the editor titled "Hualālai is a real and present threat." The writer's...

Most accounts of Captain Cook's first arrival in Hawai`i describe the Hawaiians' fascination with metal objects.

It is placid these late-summer days at Mount St. Helens, the mainland U.S. volcano that began in 2004, a sluggish, relentless eruption that lasted for...

Dr. Thomas L. Wright, former Scientist-in-Charge of HVO, spent the last two weeks in Hawai`i exchanging ideas and information with HVO scientists.