Images

A small vent on the rubble covered floor of Pu`u `Ō `ō crater was actively spattering today. Light winds allowed this relatively clear view into the crater, when otherwise it would be consumed by fume.

Power and Ethernet cables disappear over the rim of the crater. The collapse left the chunk of rim in the background dangling precariously. It is likely that this slice will join its neighbor in the coming weeks.

View of HALEMAUMUA Crater during typical tradewind conditions, which blows the gas plume to the southeast. For scale, the Halema‘uma‘u Crater is about 1 km (0.6 mi) across (left to right); the floor of Halema‘uma‘u Crater is about 80 m (260 ft) m below the crater rim.

Areas of flowing lava show up as bright spots in this image of the active lava flow that extends south from the east rift to the ocean, near the eastern boundary of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park. The image is a composite of a regular photo and a new ARRA-funded thermal infrared camera that will be used by USGS scientists to map lava-flow activity.

Early Tuesday morning (May 11), a large slice of the north rim of Pu`u `Ō `ō collapsed into the crater, taking the Pu`u `Ō `ō Webcam with it. The collapse took a large bite out of the rim, seen here at center frame, that widened the crater by up to 17 m (56 ft).

A new Webcam now sits on the north rim of Pu`u `Ō `ō. A new panorama of the crater, with a different view, will be back online soon.

Surpisingly, the Webcam managed to stay on top as it rode the avalanche to the bottom of the crater. When the fume cleared, the broken legs of the tripod (center frame and slightly above and right of center) and the Webcam enclosure (just below the tripod legs at center) were visible on the rubble pile.

Seismologists demonstrates how an earthquake's S and P waves travel through the earth at a CVO public open house.

NEW ORLEANS — Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig on April 21, 2010. A Coast Guard MH-65C dolphin rescue helicopter and crew document the fire aboard the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon, while searching for survivors.

Original image can be found at: http://www.examiner.com/article/mother-nature-one-ups-scientists-no-cle…

This photo, taken on tax day (April 15), shows the north rim of the crater as it has looked for the last couple of years. The yellow line marks the rim as it appears now.

Wild Rice River at Great Bend North Dakota, streamflow 1,890 cubic feet per second.  Photograph taken during spring 2010 flooding looking downstream of the bridge which was clogged with debris.  The river also had flooded over the road approaching the bridge.

Floodwater fills ditches around I-29 near 124th Ave S, Fargo, ND.

Floodwater fills ditches around I-29 near 124th Ave S, Fargo, ND.

Floodwater fills ditches around I-29 near 124th Ave S, Fargo, ND.

Floodwater fills ditches around I-29 near 124th Ave S, Fargo, ND.

Red River floodwaters at Fargo, ND. Photo taken at 4th St and 13th Ave, Fargo, ND.

Red River floodwaters at Fargo, ND. Photo taken at 4th St and 13th Ave, Fargo, ND.

Red River floodwaters at Fargo, ND. Photo taken at 4th St and 13th Ave, Fargo, ND.

Red River floodwaters at Fargo, ND. Photo taken at 4th St and 13th Ave, Fargo, ND.

Red River floodwaters at Fargo, ND. Photo taken at 4th St and 13th Ave, Fargo, ND.