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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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October 23, 2003

Volcano Watch — Can we predict the next "big" one?

On November 29, 1975, the latest magnitude-7 earthquake in Hawai`i struck near Kalapana, causing a tsunami that killed two campers at Halape and...

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October 17, 2003

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - October 17, 2003

Pu`u `O`o crater and hissing hornitos

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October 16, 2003

Volcano Watch — Kamehameha V comes to the rescue in 1868

We're accustomed to seeing news stories about natural disasters around the world where either national or international aid agencies come to the...

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October 10, 2003

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - October 10, 2003

New features on a rainy day

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October 9, 2003

Volcano Watch — Earth's spinning core provides magnetic protection and disaster movie material

A recent Hollywood disaster movie depicts a scenario in which the earth's magnetic core has stopped spinning, causing the planet's electromagnetic...

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October 3, 2003

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - October 3, 2003

Lava spattering from the west vent in West Gap Pit of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō, Hawai‘i.

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October 3, 2003

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - October 3, 2003

Lava has filled West Gap Pit

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October 2, 2003

Volcano Watch — Continent dwellers take colorful rocks for granite

A recent Hollywood disaster movie depicts a scenario in which the earth's Geologists on the Big Island know that they are among the privileged few in...

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September 25, 2003