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Burned trees along the trail into Hummingbird Saddle, Gila National Forest, New Mexico, where USGS scientists installed a rain gage.

USGS scientist finishes the installation of a rain gage at Hummingbird Saddle, Gila National Forest, New Mexico.

Aerial view of the Gila Wilderness Area on the approach to Mogollon Baldy Lookout, where USGS scientists installed a rain gage to provide advance flood warning, Gila National Forest, New Mexico.

A narrow channelized flow cascades down the steep lower portion of the pali in Royal Gardens subdivision. This flow was close to the former location of Paradise St.

Lava flows remain active on the pali and coastal plain, but the flow front has made no significant progress towards the ocean over the past week. This image is a composite of a thermal image and a normal photograph, with active breakouts shown by yellow and white areas, and recent, but inactive, flows shown in red and purple.

View from near the top of Mount Tarawera looking northeast along part of the string of explosion craters that split the volcano on June 10, 1886. Mount Edgecumbe stands in the distance.

Lava flows remain active on the pali and coastal plain, and continue to slowly migrate towards the ocean. This thermal-visual composite shows the distribution of active flows, which are extensive and consist of several lobes. The active flow front today was 1.1 km (0.7 miles) from the water.

A close-up of the lava pond in the eastern portion of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō crater. The lava pond is about 30 meters (100 ft) in diameter. The dark lava flows at the bottom of the photo are crater overflows that swept down the east flank of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō in September 2011.

View of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō crater, looking southwest. In the foreground, an active, spattering lava pond is contained within a collapse pit near the east rim of the crater. Two additional vents, both emitting fume, can be seen behind the fume from the lava pond.

This false-color satellite image shows the ongoing lava flow activity on the east rift zone of Kīlauea volcano along with nearby cities and towns on the east side of the Big Island. The image was acquired at 10:28 am on June 12 by the Advanced Land Imager sensor aboard the NASA Earth Observing 1 satellite.

Mark Anderson, Director of the USGS South Dakota Water Science Center, dedicated a flood marker at the Post Office in Keystone, SD, in June 2012 to commenorate the 40th anniversary of the devastating 1972 flood in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Mark Anderson, Director of the USGS South Dakota Water Science Center, dedicated a flood marker at Cleghorn Springs Fish Hatchery in Rapid City, SD, in June 2012 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the devastating 1972 flood in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

This composite image combines a thermal image with a normal photograph, and shows the recent breakouts on the pali and coastal plain in Royal Gardens subdivision. The two large vegetated areas in this view are some of the only remaining portions of Royal Gardens not covered by lava.

Map showing the extent of lava flows erupted during Kīlauea's ongoing east rift zone eruption and labeled with the years in which they were active.

A major eruption of Mount Hood would pose a great hazard to the regional economy.

The lava flows on the coastal plain are still slowly advancing towards the water. On today's overflight, the active breakouts were about 750 m (0.5 miles) from the ocean. These flows have once again entered the National Park.

A circular lava pond has recently been active near the eastern rim of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō crater. Today, the lava pond had low-level but continuous spattering from its eastern margin, and a mostly crusted lava surface.

Partially submerged eelgrass bed at low tide in Fay Bainbridge Park on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Eelgrass is an underwater plant that is a common sight on Puget Sound beaches when the tide is out. Healthy eelgrass indicates that water clarity is high.

Preview image for video: shows the impressive spattering at the western margin of the lava lake at Halema‘uma‘u. The continuous spattering is often punctuated by bursts which throw lava onto the ledge (left portion of image), and this accumulating lava is building a spatter rampart.

The lava lake at Kīlauea's summit was about 65 m (215 ft) below the floor of Halema‘uma‘u crater today, with impressive spattering along its western edge.

The spatter from the lava lake was landing, in part, on the ledge adjacent to the lake, and then flowing away in a small channel toward the southern side of the vent where it was ponding and cooling. Notice the wrinkled crust on the surface of the lake.