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By now, everyone is familiar with the magnitude-9.0 (M9.0) earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan on March 11, 2011, and arrived at Hawai‘i...

In early March, a new phase of Kīlauea's east rift zone eruption occurred as lava erupted in the Kamoamoa area, between Nāpau Crater and Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō...

HVO scientists were shaken out of their weekend routine when, at 1:42 p.m., on Saturday, March 5, 2011, the seismic tremor alarms started and, at 2:16...

The rapid draining of lava from the pit in Halema‘uma‘u on March 5 occasioned worst-case concerns of explosive eruptions at Kīlauea's summit. Thank...

On Saturday afternoon, March 5, 2011, automatic alarms signaled increased seismic activity at Kīlauea and tiltmeter records showed rapid deflation of...

Vog is made up of two principal components—sulfur dioxide gas, emitted by the active Kīlauea volcano, and acid sulfate aerosols, produced by a...

The Hawaiian Islands are home to numerous beautiful landforms. The islands themselves are volcanoes, but these volcanoes are speckled with secondary...

Twenty years ago, Mount Pinatubo awakened from a long sleep to produce Earth's second largest eruption in more than half a century. Volcanologists...

"That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." The Kīlauea version of this Shakespeare quote could be "That which we call an...

Mount Merapi volcano in central Java, Indonesia, began erupting explosively on October 26, followed by extrusion of lava in the summit crater, and...