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Locally, the term "vog" has become a household word, with a rash of media articles and even a respectable Wikipedia entry online. After 25 years of...

Humans are an inventive lot, and when faced with adversity, we look for creative ways to fix the problem. Any natural disaster can be separated into...

In contrast to the spectacular incandescent explosions and springtime spatter showers at the Halema`uma`u Overlook in March and April, the eruptive...

Have you ever wondered what it's like to work the night shift at a volcano observatory? Probably not, but for volcanologists, sitting in the glass...

Kīlauea is putting on a tremendous display near Kalapana, where lava is entering the ocean after traveling through a tube system that originates high...

One of the most surprising aspects of the current summit eruption at Kīlauea Volcano, which started in March of this year, is that there has been...

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geophysicists are conducting a routine GPS survey of Haleakalā Volcano on the island of Maui this week as part of the U.S...

During the evening of April 30, in a distant volcanic region in the southern Andes about 1050 km (650 miles) south of Santiago, Chile, strong ground...

Photos of the summit caldera of Mauna Loa.

If you keep an eye on the Kīlauea update images posted on the HVO website, you may have noticed over the last few months that we have occasionally...