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Kīlauea's 12-year-old East Rift Zone eruption continues with lava issuing from vents on the southwest flank of Pu'u 'O'o.

The "Volcano Watch" column from January 22, which provided information about earthquake damage from the Kobe earthquake in Japan and then described...

The U.S. Geological Survey has been working with the JASON Project, which began filming this past Monday in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, to produce...

I want to thank all of you who came to our first-ever open house this past Monday. The number of people who wanted to see what we do and how we do it...

The U.S. Geological Survey' Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, National Biological Service, National Park Service, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Kīlauea...

From February 13-18, the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and the National Park Service will host a team of scientists and engineers from NASA...

The current activity along Kīlauea's east rift zone is the longest-lived eruption of Kīlauea in historic times. However, the historic period on...

The eruption on Kīlauea's east rift zone has continued without interruption since the last brief pause at the end of November.

The magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Kobe, Japan has resulted in extensive damage and a shocking number of fatalities and injuries. Japan has not...

A few weeks ago, we told you about the more than 67,000 earthquakes we recorded during the past year. Most of those earthquakes were so small that...