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In our June 25, 2015, “Volcano Watch,” we described how old maps and newspaper articles provide valuable insights into historic accounts of eruptions...

Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō thermal camera viewing geometry

During the past 4 months, the June 27th lava flow, named for the date in 2014 that it began erupting from Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō on Kīlauea Volcano's East Rift...

Breakouts active northeast of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō, no recent overall advancement

Ping! It's 2:12 a.m., and I (a USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientist) am still groggy as I read an automated text from HVO's computer system.

Dr. Jim Kauahikaua, a research geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, recently received a Citation for Meritorious...

The planet Venus has been especially prominent in the evening sky these past few weeks, joining Jupiter and a waxing Moon in a sparkling, slow-motion...

Scattered breakouts northeast of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō, but little forward progress

The U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) recorded a magnitude-5.2 earthquakebeneath the Island of Hawai‘i on Saturday, June 27...

USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists extract as much insight as possible from historic accounts of eruptions, and then combine that...