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Once again, with the end of the spring semester, the Center for the Study of Active Volcanoes (CSAV) at the University of Hawaii at Hilo has begun its...

A few evenings ago the staff of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory took a field trip to Prince Kuhio Plaza to see the latest disaster film, VOLCANO...

Many residents have noticed the bright orange glow coming from Kīlauea's eruption site on recent nights. Judging from the phone calls we receive at...

The Mauna Ulu eruption on Kīlauea's east rift zone began 28 years ago this month, on May 24, 1969. For the next 2.5 years eruption was almost...

Hilo is situated on lava flows from two of the five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawai`i. However, most of the surface flows one drives by (and...

Regular readers of this column should not have been surprised last week by the news article stating that the earthquake risk on the Big Island is as...

A magnitude-3.8 earthquake shook the Kīlauea summit region at 2:55 p.m. Wednesday afternoon.

The 55th episode of Kīlauea's east rift zone eruption has resumed with the vigor that characterized the eruption prior to January 30. We mark the...

USGS field crews report that the lava pond inside the Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō crater is at a depth of 190 feet below the rim, and is essentially unchanged since...

Observations of the Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō–Kupaianaha eruption relayed from helicopter tour pilots at 0800 hrs and 1030 hrs indicate that lava is flowing from two...