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Daily updates about ongoing eruptions, recent images and videos of summit and East Rift Zone volcanic activity, maps, and data about recent earthquakes in Hawaii are posted on the HVO website.

Volcano Watch is a weekly article and activity update written by U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and colleagues.

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June 29, 2006

Volcano Watch — HVO loses two valued scientists, but gains two good friends

This week, HVO bade farewell to Marie Edmonds and Richard "Ricky" Herd, who have been working at the observatory since February 2004. Both came to HVO...

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June 27, 2006

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - June 27, 2006

Gas pistons within the Drainhole vent at Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō.

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June 24, 2006

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - June 24, 2006

Lava breakout from the PKK lava tube at East Lae‘apuki.

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June 22, 2006

Volcano Watch — Why monitor volcanoes of the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands?

As if to remind us that active volcanoes are in the region, a billowing column of volcanic gases has been spewing from Anatahan Volcano in the...

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June 15, 2006

Volcano Watch — What did kill those bears and bison at Yellowstone?

On a clear summer day in 1897, a newly-minted Harvard Ph.D. geologist led a field party into a remote hot springs area of what is now Yellowstone...

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June 8, 2006

Volcano Watch — Indonesia pays heavy price for proximity to plate boundary

Merapi volcano, on the island of Java, began to make headlines in late March, when increasing seismicity led the Volcanological Survey of Indonesia...

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June 3, 2006

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - June 3, 2006

Gas pistons within the Drainhole vent at Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō.

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June 2, 2006

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - June 2, 2006

Gas pistons within the Drainhole vent at Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō.

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June 1, 2006

Volcano Watch — He's back! Thomas Jaggar returns to the Whitney Vault

Thomas Jaggar, the scientist who founded the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO), is again enthralling visitors to Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park with...

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May 29, 2006

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - May 29, 2006

Lava tube bubble bursts on the East Lae‘apuki lava delta.

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May 25, 2006

Volcano Watch — HVO intern increases understanding of deformation at Kīlauea Volcano

Last week you read about the contributions made by Ben Haravitch, a student from Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), who worked at HVO for the internship...

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May 18, 2006

Volcano Watch — Student discovers new facts about 200-yr old explosions of Kīlauea

A two-part Volcano Watch in late January presented evidence for large explosions from Kīlauea. Ash rose into, or even above, the jet stream and was...

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