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Do you, like most people, think that eruptions in Hawaii are confined to the Island of Hawai‘i? If so, you may be surprised to learn that Haleakalā...

At the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO), we continuously strive to improve our capability to monitor the volcanoes that we live upon.

Sometimes a geologic study resembles a crime scene investigation (CSI), as seen on TV. You piece together information from eyewitnesses and compare it...

At 9:28 a.m., HST, on April 3, 2013, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory's (HVO) seismographic network recorded a magnitude-3.2 earthquake. This...

Petrology, the study of the origin, or genesis, of rocks, is an important aspect of our multi-faceted approach to monitoring the current eruptions of...

Over the past six months, the pace of Kīlauea's 30-year-long ongoing eruption has quickened. This follows the quietest period—spanning most of 2012—of...

No, Tyra Banks hasn't been helping HVO install monitoring equipment at Kīlauea. We're talking about using computer models to investigate what is...

It wasn't too long ago that tour buses shuttled hundreds of visitors a day to the Halema‘uma‘u parking lot.

March 5, 2013, marked the 2nd anniversary of the start of the Kamoamoa fissure eruption on Kīlauea Volcano's East Rift Zone. This small, but...

The Southwest Rift Zone (SWRZ) of Kīlauea is often overlooked as a source of eruptions, because the volcano's East Rift Zone is so much more active...