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Following a brief pause in the eruption during the last week of November, lava continues to issue from vents on the southwest flank of Pu'u 'O'o.

This past week, six members of the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory traveled to San Francisco to participate in the Fall Meeting...

The nearly 12-year-long eruption along Kīlauea's east rift zone took another brief vacation this past week. This was the sixth pause in eruptive...

Mount Merapi, a 2,911-meter-tall volcano on the island of Java in Indonesia, erupted on November 22 at about 10:15 a.m. local time.
 

Eleven years ago on November 16, residents of Hawaii were awakened by a strong earthquake at 6:13 a.m. The earthquake had a magnitude of 6.6 and was...

The eruption along Kīlauea's east rift zone is approaching its twelfth anniversary, now less than two months away. The eruption continues strongly...

Beginning on October 21 and continuing through October 31, residents in parts of lower Puna have felt a sequence of small earthquakes. 

The nearly twelve-year-long eruption on Kīlauea's east rift zone had at least one additional pause in activity this past week.
 

Not only does Hawaii move up and down, as I described last week, it also moves horizontally. There are several ways to measure these movements, and a...

There is abundant evidence that the island of Hawaii is sinking, and that different parts of the island sink, or subside, at different rates and for...