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March 25 is the 30th anniversary of the most recent eruption of Mauna Loa, Hawai‘i island's largest volcano.

Six years is a blink of an eye in geologic time, but it can fly by for people, too. In a way, it doesn't seem very long ago that the summit eruption...

March 5, 2014, marked the third anniversary of the onset of Kīlauea Volcano's four-day-long Kamoamoa fissure eruption. This brief episode marked the...

Soon after a large earthquake occurs, the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory publicizes the preliminary location and magnitude. Have you ever wondered...

Ask a child to draw a volcano, and he or she will likely sketch a cone-shaped mountain erupting lava high into the air (with possibly a dinosaur or...

While most football fans have recovered from Super Bowl XLVIII, the most exciting time of year is just beginning for sled-dog-racing enthusiasts. As...

The staff of the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) sends a big "mahalo" to everyone who attended our public presentations during Hawai‘i Island...

We conclude our Volcano Awareness Month series on the important questions about how Hawaiian volcanoes work with an article on monitoring volcanic...

In our January Volcano Watch articles during Hawai‘i Island's 5th annual Volcano Awareness Month, we are exploring important questions about how...

In this second of four Volcano Watch articles addressing the "big" questions faced by volcanologists studying Hawaiian volcanoes today, we will focus...