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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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Volcano Watch — Rootless shields and hornitos

Volcano Watch — Rootless shields and hornitos

As many of you die-hard eruption fans already know, lava is no longer entering the ocean, for the first time since last May. The tube leading to the...

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - February 8, 2002

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - February 8, 2002

Lava flows at a rootless shield
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Volcano Watch — Past magnetism helps understand Kialuea's explosive history

Volcano Watch — Past magnetism helps understand Kialuea's explosive history

Every year about Super Bowl time, Dick Fiske and Tim Rose, volcanologists from the Smithsonian Institution, join HVO's staff for 2-3 weeks to...

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - February 7, 2002

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - February 7, 2002

Changes in hornitos at 2300 feet
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Volcano Watch — Nyirangongo -- Could it happen here?

Volcano Watch — Nyirangongo -- Could it happen here?

At dawn on January 17, 2002, the residents of Goma, a city of 500,000 along the eastern border of the Republic of Congo, awoke to glowing red skies...

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - January 25, 2002

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - January 25, 2002

Rootless shields and hornitos along the main tube system
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Volcano Watch — Expansion of Alaskan Volcano monitoring program continues

Volcano Watch — Expansion of Alaskan Volcano monitoring program continues

In one of the most ambitious volcano-monitoring efforts ever undertaken, scientists of the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) are moving ahead with...

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Volcano Watch — The 1859 eruption of Mauna Loa and its human impact

Volcano Watch — The 1859 eruption of Mauna Loa and its human impact

The 1859 eruption of Mauna Loa began in the evening of January 23. Following a brief summit eruption, an outbreak occurred high on Mauna Loa's...

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - January 17, 2002

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - January 17, 2002

Views of 2220' rootless shield and 2300' growing hornito
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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - January 15, 2002

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - January 15, 2002

Western part of Kamoamoa bench

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - October 24, 2002

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - October 24, 2002

Western part of Kamoamoa bench
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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - January 11, 2002

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - January 11, 2002

A week's growth at the Kamoamoa bench and at a hornito
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