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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 - November 19, 2004

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - November 19, 2004

Pu`u `O`o and Lae`apuki

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - November 18, 2004

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - November 18, 2004

Liquid rock more than meets its match

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Volcano Watch — Designing new eyes for monitoring volcanoes

Volcano Watch — Designing new eyes for monitoring volcanoes

Scientists have all sorts of ways to remotely monitor volcanoes. Here at Hawaiʻian Volcano Observatory, for example, we use seismometers, GPS...

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - November 16, 2004

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - November 16, 2004

Showery...but c'est la vie

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - November 12, 2004

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - November 12, 2004

Various and sundry

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Volcano Watch — Red-rock junkies are enjoying the show: Kīlauea lava flows pour into sea, Mount St. Helens lava pushes up snow and ice

Volcano Watch — Red-rock junkies are enjoying the show: Kīlauea lava flows pour into sea, Mount St. Helens lava pushes up snow and ice

Lava erupting from the Pu`u `O`o vent is again spilling into the sea and adding new land along Kīlauea's shoreline to the delight of red-rock junkies...

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - November 10, 2004

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - November 10, 2004

East Lae`apuki by daylight

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - November 8, 2004

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - November 8, 2004

A weak but colorful PKK ocean entry

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - November 6, 2004

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - November 6, 2004

PKK flow makes it to the coast

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - November 5, 2004

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - November 5, 2004

PKK flow heads for the coast

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Volcano Watch — Kīlauea provides a basis for research into alien atmospheres

Volcano Watch — Kīlauea provides a basis for research into alien atmospheres

Thomas Jaggar, the first director of the Hawaiʻian Volcano Observatory, from 1912-1940, probably never imagined that the gas compositions he measured...

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Volcano Watch — Mauna Loa events in 1903 - separating the wheat from the chaff

Volcano Watch — Mauna Loa events in 1903 - separating the wheat from the chaff

As we await the next eruption of Mauna Loa, some HVO scientists have been looking at old eruption records which enable us to see trends that could...

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