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Changes in color at Kīlauea's summit water pond are common

With heavy heart, the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) bids aloha to Janet Babb, outreach geologist and educator extraordinaire who retired...

No significant changes at Kīlauea summit

First, there was the March 18, 2020, magnitude 5.7 (M5.7) earthquake near Salt Lake City. And then there was the M6.5 earthquake in central Idaho on...

Close monitoring of the summit water pond continues

Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano on Earth, has erupted, on average, every 5–6 years during the past 3,000 years.

No significant changes in the summit water pond

We can look back to research describing microbes in Yellowstone hot springs to see how fundamental explorative scientific research is an amazing...

The presence of water in Halema‘uma‘u has sparked an important discussion about what the pond means for future eruptions at Kīlauea Volcano. There are...

Timelapse of water rising in Halema‘uma‘u