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It was a busy week atop our favorite volcano as Halema`uma`u continued to emit a towering white plume of gas and ash that was visible for miles around...

A second explosion from the new vent in Halema‘uma‘u Crater occurred at 11:08 p.m., HST, on April 9, 2008. The explosion was smaller in magnitude than...

Hundreds of visitors are driving to Kalapana each day to see the ocean entries of Kīlauea's east-rift lava flows. As these visitors watch the flows...

Halema‘uma‘u plume captures the rainbow.

Plume turns from bright white to reddish-brown.

Last week's "Volcano Watch" detailed the development of the new gas vent - and small explosive eruption - on the south wall of Halema`uma`u Crater.

There is now continuous emission of ash from the new gas vent in Halema‘uma‘u Crater, turning the formerly white cloud of fume a dusty-brown color.

2008 will be known as the year that Kīlauea Volcano had a mid-life crisis. After 25 years of almost continuous, effusive eruption from its east rift...

At 2:58 a.m. HST on Wednesday, March 19, 2008, a small explosion occurred at Halema‘uma‘u Crater at the summit of Kīlauea Volcano in Hawai‘i Volcanoes...

A prominent new gas vent broke through the lower east wall of Halema‘uma‘u this week, doubling the already elevated level of sulfur dioxide gas being...