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Before Tropical Storm Iselle's landfall on August 7, conventional wisdom among many residents was that the Island of Hawai‘i is immune to hurricanes...

This week, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) bids aloha to two interns, Pua Pali and Greg Javar, who gained first-hand experience monitoring...

We've learned a lot about Kīlauea's explosive history in the last 15 years.

On July 18, 2014, newspapers across the United States published a story titled "Quake risk rises for much of U.S."

Do you want to know which volcanoes in the United States are erupting? Or which volcanoes are showing signs of activity which may lead to an eruption?

William Ellis led a team of missionaries on a tour of the Island of Hawai‘i starting on July 18, 1823, from the village of Kailua. Their trip took...

This year, two days before America’s Independence Day fireworks celebrations began, a remarkably different “rocket’s red glare” was seen at Vandenberg...

For the past year, the Kahauale‘a 2 lava flow was erupting from a vent high on the northeast crater rim of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō, on Kīlauea's East Rift Zone...

A few weeks ago, a Volcano Watch article recounted the advance of Mauna Loa lavas on the town of Hilo in 1855.

For the past several years, the amount of lava erupting from Kīlauea's East Rift Zone has been well below the long-term output rate established...