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Flow front starting to advance across coastal plain

Readers of Volcano Watch might recall past articles that have described various ways in which the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) studies and...

Flow front spreads out at base of pali

Flow front reaches base of pali, burning vegetation

Channelized ‘A‘ā flow at top of Pūlama pali

Typical lava lake activity at Kīlauea's summit, slowly rising lake level

The engagement of written history and geology, two ordinarily separated academic disciplines, has—once more—proven unexpectedly fruitful in our...

Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō lava flow continues advancing downslope

Early on the morning of May 24, 2016, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists were alerted by text message that a tiltmeter on the Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō cone...

Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō lava flow still moving downslope