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Daily updates about ongoing eruptions, recent images and videos of summit and East Rift Zone volcanic activity, maps, and data about recent earthquakes in Hawaii are posted on the HVO website. 

Volcano Watch is a weekly article and activity update written by U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and colleagues.

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - September 23, 2005

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - September 23, 2005

Skylight and spatter

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Volcano Watch — Mount St. Helens: One year and counting

Volcano Watch — Mount St. Helens: One year and counting

Almost exactly one year ago today, the first signs of reawakening were detected at Mount St. Helens in Washington. On September 23, 2004, a small...

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - September 16, 2005

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - September 16, 2005

Pu`u `O`o's crater and East Lae`apuki lava delta

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Volcano Watch — Dallas Peck: former HVO geologist and master gardener

Volcano Watch — Dallas Peck: former HVO geologist and master gardener

Dallas Peck, one of the finest geologists to have matriculated at the Hawaiʻian Volcano Observatory, died August 21 in Fairfax, Virginia, at the age...

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Volcano Watch — HVO and NOAA are Pacific Tsunami Monitoring Partner

Volcano Watch — HVO and NOAA are Pacific Tsunami Monitoring Partner

Recent reports in the local news media mention significant supplemental funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to...

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - September 2, 2005

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - September 2, 2005

East Pond Vent and East Lae`apuki lava delta

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Volcano Watch — Mount St. Helens still erupting as anniversary approaches

Volcano Watch — Mount St. Helens still erupting as anniversary approaches

After 18 years of relative quiet between 1987 and 2004, Mount St. Helens volcano began erupting again nearly one year ago with a small but spectacular...

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - August 26, 2005

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - August 26, 2005

Photos of a waterspout and a bursting lava bubble.

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - August 26-27, 2005

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - August 26-27, 2005

Partial collapse of East Lae`apuki lava delta

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Volcano Watch — A pioneering volcanologist narrowly beats the Reaper

Volcano Watch — A pioneering volcanologist narrowly beats the Reaper

Two pioneering volcanologists-Thomas Jaggar and Frank Perret-set up the first systematic monitoring station in Hawai`i's Kīlauea caldera in 1911. The...

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - August 19, 2005

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - August 19, 2005

East Lae`apuki lava delta and littoral explosions

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Volcano Watch — Kalapana gets sandy volcanic ash from Kīlauea's summit

Volcano Watch — Kalapana gets sandy volcanic ash from Kīlauea's summit

"Curiouser and curiouser," said Alice after falling down the rabbit hole into Wonderland, and that's what some HVO researchers are saying about a late...

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