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Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's...

Kīlauea summit

What does a magma chamber look like? At first thought, many of us would imagine a large cavern in the crust filled with molten rock. While this has...

Volcano Watch: How fast will this flow cool?

It has been well documented that the interaction of ocean waves and the seabed causes seismic shaking that is recorded by seismometers around the...

Volcano Watch: A new focus on a different volcanic gas

A temporary monitoring camera on the west rim of Kīlauea caldera now provides views looking east toward the bottom of the recently enlarged Halema‘uma...

USGS Fact Sheet, written by HVO scientists, won the 2018 Shoemaker Award for Communications Product Excellence for the Small Print category.

Information about how to stay informed about Hawaiian volcanoes.

2018 Kīlauea lower East Rift Zone eruption and calderal collapse described in Science paper.