Volcano Watch

As candidates spar over the current economic crisis, how it happened, and how we might recover, one thing seems clear here in Hawai`i: Kīlauea is in...

This week, access to Turrialba Volcano National Park in Costa Rica, was temporarily closed because elevated gas emissions were blown into visitor...

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...

Kīlauea is putting on a tremendous display near Kalapana, where lava is entering the ocean after traveling through a tube system that originates high...

One of the most surprising aspects of the current summit eruption at Kīlauea Volcano, which started in March of this year, is that there has been...

During the evening of April 30, in a distant volcanic region in the southern Andes about 1050 km (650 miles) south of Santiago, Chile, strong ground...

If you keep an eye on the Kīlauea update images posted on the HVO website, you may have noticed over the last few months that we have occasionally...

People who live in areas with high earthquake activity are familiar with the sensation of the earth shaking beneath their feet during an earthquake...

The new Halema`uma`u Overlook vent is now only three months old, and the accompanying plume is relatively small in terms of previous explosive...

Even with the focus on sulfur dioxide gas (SO2) and vog, inquisitive individuals have asked about other things emitted by Kīlauea volcano. Here's the...

Since March 12, when a billowing cloud of fume erupted from the east wall of Halema`uma`u, thousands of Hawai`i residents and visitors have gazed out...