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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.

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...

The first 12 years of eruptive activity.

This is roughly the 150th weekly column of "VolcanoWatch,"which was begun in November 1991 to keep readers informed of the on-going activity of...

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.