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USGS Multimedia Gallery

USGS Multimedia Gallery

The USGS Multimedia Gallery is our one-stop collection of videos, photography, and audio. All items in this gallery are considered public domain unless otherwise noted.

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USGS Multimedia Gallery

USGS Multimedia Gallery

The USGS Multimedia Gallery is our one-stop collection of videos, photography, and audio. All items in this gallery are considered public domain unless otherwise noted.

Audio and podcasts
Before and After
Images
Stereograms
Videos
Webcams
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Photography
Inflation along the lava tube has created a long ridge with a deep,...

Inflation along the lava tube has created a long ridge with a deep,...

Photography
A geologist remembers the Mount St. Helens eruption 37 years ago...

A geologist remembers the Mount St. Helens eruption 37 years ago

Photography
June 27th flow approaching residential areas in Pāhoa...

June 27th flow approaching residential areas in Pāhoa

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Serapeum, a Roman marketplace in the center of Pozzuoli, near Naples, Italy.

How to's and trainings

Role of Infrasound in the USGS Eruption Response

Photography
Color photograph of volcanic vent

Activity at the west vent within Halemaʻumaʻu crater on January 22

Center News
Cover of PCMSC GIP showing a collage of photos of scientists in the field

What We Do: Coastal and Marine Science at USGS Santa Cruz

Photography
Color photograph of volcanic vent spattering

Kīlauea summit eruption - Jan. 3, 2020, at 1:30 a.m. HST

Photography
Color photograph of scientist monitoring lava lake

Scientist monitoring Kīlauea summit eruption on 12/29/2020

Photography
Color photograph of lava lake

Kīlauea summit eruption in Halema‘uma‘u crater – October 7, 2021

Photography
Hot springs and hot muddy pools (Alaska) caused by geothermal activity underground.

Hot springs (Alaska) caused by geothermal activity underground.

Photography
Image: Vog from Kilauea

Vog from Kilauea

Photography
Steam rises from a circular crater in the center of a watery lake of mud. Mud berms surround the hole, with dead, drowned trees reaching bare branches skyward. In the distance, villages of red-tiled houses are visible.

LUSI mud volcano, East Java, Indonesia

Photography
A telephoto image of the west vent in Halema‘uma‘u at the summit of Kīlauea

Kīlauea summit eruption in Halemaʻumaʻu crater - October 2, 2021

Photography
Thick gas plume and fresh tire tracks in Kilauea tephra 12/21/20

Thick gas plume and fresh tire tracks in Kilauea tephra 12/21/20

Photography
Color photograph of eruption

Kīlauea summit eruption - September 30, 2021

Photography
A telephoto image of one of the low lava fountains near the center of the growing Halema'uma'u lava lake

Lava fountain from Kīlauea's ongoing summit eruption

Photography
This photo looks out onto the floor of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō from near the high...

Floor of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō from NW rim of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō

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Long-tailed Jaeger chick sitting next to egg at Icy Cape, Alaska. Egg is brown with dark brown spots and small hole at top.

Long-tailed Jaeger chick, Alaska

Photography
KAMAKAIA Hills: what are they and why are they there?...

KAMAKAIA Hills: what are they and why are they there?

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2 people in life vests by dock by water hammering into post with city view in background

HRECOS gage Pier 26 New York, NY

Photography
Satellite photo of Lake Baikal, Russia

Lake Baikal from space, the largest, oldest, and deepest lake

Photography
Erosion along Alaska’s Arctic coastline near the village of Kaktovik

Erosion along Alaska’s Arctic coastline near the village of Kaktovik

Photography
A tributary at the arctic-boreal transition in the Agashashok River Watershed

Water falling in a watershed drains to a common point.

Photography
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HVO staff work together while maintaining social distancing as they install diff

Photography
Image: Stories of Lava Flows and Volcanic Landscapes from Ka‘u to North Kona Featured in Public Talk

Stories of Lava Flows and Volcanic Landscapes from Ka'u to North Kona Featured in Public Talk

Photography
Two people wearing N95 masks and waders stand hip-deep in a pond next to a net, one hands a container to the other.

Translocating a red-legged frog egg mass

Photography
Risky actions at Kīlauea's ocean entry are cause for concern...

Risky actions at Kīlauea's ocean entry are cause for concern

Photography
Oddly shaped, oval fish with wing-like fins, seen in aerial view

Zoomed view of sunfish (Mola mola)

Photography
Kīlauea's 1971 Southwest Rift Zone Eruption: A First in 52 Years...

Kīlauea's 1971 Southwest Rift Zone Eruption: A First in 52 Years

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