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Pu`u Mahana is a famous attraction on the southeast coast of the island of Hawai`i. The literal translation of Pu`u Mahana is "warm hill." People who...

Since Mauna Loa began showing signs of renewed restlessness in mid-2002, we have put a lot of effort into improving our capability for detecting the...

As residents of Hawai`i, we are, for the most part, acutely aware of volcanic processes and products. This is especially true for those of us living...

Like much of the world, HVOers have been following the events surrounding hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the past months. Extreme phenomena like...

By day, the six vents arrayed across the crater floor of Pu`u `O`o emit copious clouds of steam and magmatic gas. Darkness reveals that many of them...

Almost exactly one year ago today, the first signs of reawakening were detected at Mount St. Helens in Washington. On September 23, 2004, a small...

Dallas Peck, one of the finest geologists to have matriculated at the Hawaiʻian Volcano Observatory, died August 21 in Fairfax, Virginia, at the age...

Recent reports in the local news media mention significant supplemental funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to...

After 18 years of relative quiet between 1987 and 2004, Mount St. Helens volcano began erupting again nearly one year ago with a small but spectacular...

Two pioneering volcanologists-Thomas Jaggar and Frank Perret-set up the first systematic monitoring station in Hawai`i's Kīlauea caldera in 1911. The...