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Long-term change at MLK vent

Satellite image shows active surface flows.

Seldom does one find evidence of an eruption where none was known before. We generally assume that Kīlauea erupts only at the summit or along its two...

Tuesday morning, July 31, started as a typical office day at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO). Beginning at 10:25 a.m., a number of text...

Small, scattered breakouts on flow field.

At 3:45 a.m., Friday, July 19, 1974, a flurry of earthquakes on Kīlauea triggered the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory's "tremor alarm." In response...

Surface flows on pali and coastal plain; small lava lake in Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō.

When William Ellis, the first Western visitor to the summit of Kīlauea, looked out over the broad and deep caldera in 1823, he noted that it "had been...

Widespread flows on coastal plain and pali, but little advancement.

For decades, the State of Hawaii has been trying to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. Energy from Hawai‘i geothermal resources is but one of...