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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 - February 9, 2005

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - February 9, 2005

Lava fountaining from the MLK vent

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - February 8, 2005

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - February 8, 2005

Near Pu`u `O`o

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Volcano Watch — Lava meets the sea--again

Volcano Watch — Lava meets the sea--again

Lava viewers will be happy to hear that flows are entering the ocean again. Since January 31, we've had two widely spaced entries, one at West...

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - February 1, 2005

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - February 1, 2005

Lava at Ka`ili`ili

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - January 28, 2005

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - January 28, 2005

Lava at West Highcastle

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Volcano Watch — An Eye on Io's Volcanism

Volcano Watch — An Eye on Io's Volcanism

Io, the innermost of Jupiter's five major moons, is roughly the same size as Earth's moon. When Voyager 1 and 2 sped past Jupiter in 1979, scientists...

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - January 26, 2005

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - January 26, 2005

Kiln hornito and small neighbor

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - January 25, 2005

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - January 25, 2005

Pu`u `O`o and upper PKK flow

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Volcano Watch — First photograph of Kīlauea volcano in the 60s

Volcano Watch — First photograph of Kīlauea volcano in the 60s

Sometimes you just don't know what you're going to find, and when you do find it, you're not quite sure what it is.

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - January 18, 2005

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - January 18, 2005

Headed toward Highcastle

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Volcano Watch — 2004's earthquakes in review

Volcano Watch — 2004's earthquakes in review

Along with the rest of the world, we at the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiʻian Volcano Observatory continue to follow the aftermath of the great...

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - January 6, 2005

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - January 6, 2005

MLK to far west arm

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