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June 27 lava flow remains active in forest northeast of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō

This week, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) bids aloha to two interns, Pua Pali and Greg Javar, who gained first-hand experience monitoring...

June 27 flow continues advancing through forest northeast of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō

In July 2014, USGS Scientists Peter Kelly (Cascades Volcano Observatory) and Stuart Wilkinson (California Volcano Observatory) installed an automated...

Lava lake activity continues in Halema‘uma‘u Crater

Kīlauea summit

The U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) recorded a magnitude-4.5 earthquakelocated beneath the Island of Hawai‘i on Thursday...

June 27 lava flow reaches forest boundary

We've learned a lot about Kīlauea's explosive history in the last 15 years.

On July 18, 2014, newspapers across the United States published a story titled "Quake risk rises for much of U.S."