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Ever heard of Higaturu? How about Popendetta? You'll find the town of Popendetta on a map of Papua New Guinea, about 90 miles northeast of Port...

The Cascades Volcano Observatory, one of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory's sister observatories, has worked in the past two weeks to install new...

"So, how far down is the lava?"

Explosive eruptions on three remote Aleutian islands this summer during a three-week period generated large ash and gas-rich clouds that kept...

Many readers know that a party of warriors and their families led by Keoua was decimated by an explosive eruption (called Keonehelelei—the falling...

Though nearly all of the seismic data processing, analysis, and presentation at the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) have...

Locally, the term "vog" has become a household word, with a rash of media articles and even a respectable Wikipedia entry online. After 25 years of...

Humans are an inventive lot, and when faced with adversity, we look for creative ways to fix the problem. Any natural disaster can be separated into...

In contrast to the spectacular incandescent explosions and springtime spatter showers at the Halema`uma`u Overlook in March and April, the eruptive...

Have you ever wondered what it's like to work the night shift at a volcano observatory? Probably not, but for volcanologists, sitting in the glass...