Photo and Video Chronology

The vigorous fountaining from vents in the southwest corner of Halemaʻmaʻu crater at the summit of Kīlauea volcano rapidly died down over a few...

The eruption at Kīlauea volcano that began yesterday, December 23, slowed starting around 3 p.m. HST yesterday. The eruption paused through the night...

A new Kīlauea eruption began within Kaluapele (the summit caldera) at 2:20 a.m HST on December 23, 2024. Activity is confined to the caldera, with...

On December 3, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologists visited webcams at the summit of Kīlauea to perform maintenance. 

With permission from Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, team of USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologists visited the site of the September 2024...

Mauna Loa summit webcams have been down for several months due to wind damage at the radio telemetry site. On November 7, 2024, HVO staff visited the...

USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists conducted maintenance on a webcam on the East Rift Zone of Kīlauea, where a recent interferogram shows...

An area of forest continues to burn in a remote area on the south rim of Nāpau Crater following the recent eruption on Kīlauea’s middle East Rift Zone...

HVO scientists are conducting the annual Kīlauea GPS campaign. During the survey, GPS instruments are deployed at established benchmarks so that their...

The middle East Rift Zone eruption of Kīlauea volcano, in a remote area of Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park near Nāpau Crater, paused the morning of...

Kīlauea volcano continues to erupt in Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park near Nāpau Crater on the remote middle East Rift Zone. 

Kīlauea volcano continues to erupt in Nāpau Crater on the middle East Rift Zone in Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park.

Kīlauea volcano's middle East Rift Zone eruption resumed late on September 16, 2024, and it continues this morning within Nāpau Crater. The eruption...

Kīlauea volcano erupted briefly last night just west of Nāpau Crater on the middle East Rift Zone. This eruption, which is now over, likely occurred...

Seismicity and deformation increased dramatically at 6 p.m. yesterday in the middle East Rift Zone just northwest of Makaopuhi Crater indicating...

During the week of September 2, USGS-Hawaiian Volcano Observatory field engineers visited the west side of the Island of Hawaiʻi to service several...

On August 20, 2024, USGS scientists made a routine visit to the summit of Kīlauea for maintenance work on a webcam and general observations. A recent...

On August 2,2024, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory gas scientists flew via helicopter to the Sulfur Cone Multi-Gas instrumentation site on Mauna Loa's...

During an intrusion in Kīlauea's upper East Rift Zone from July 22-25, 2024, more than 1,500 earthquakes were detected. Changes in ground deformation...

On July 2, HVO field engineers re-leveled the UWE tiltmeter located near Uēkahuna bluff in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. On July 3, HVO geologists...