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USGS scientists determine the extent of deposits from episode 38 of lava fountaining at Kīlauea summit, which occurred on December 6, 2025. 

Kīlauea summit eruption lava fountaining episode 38 took place on December 6, 2025, in Halema‘uma‘u crater on the Island of Hawai‘i. Fountains from...

Tephra formed by lava fountains during the ongoing Kīlauea summit eruption has created a new puʻu (hill) southwest of Halemaʻumaʻu crater. The new...

The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory conducted a monitoring overflight of Kīlauea summit on December 2, 2025.

The 1975 Kalapana earthquake brought big changes to lives of the people affected by the fatalities and damage, as well as big changes to our...

Episode 37 lava fountaining occurred yesterday from 2:30 p.m. to 11:39 p.m., totaling just over 9 hours. 

On November 24, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologists conducted a monitoring overflight of Kīlauea summit, during which they collected visual...

Overnight, there was strong glow from the north and south vents with brief periods of spattering. Inflationary tilt is being recorded by summit...

Fifty years ago this month, the largest Hawaii earthquake of the 20th and 21st centuries occurred. Earthquake shaking, as well as ground subsidence...

On November 17, 2025, U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory staff conducted fieldwork in the closed area of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National...