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Volcano Watch — Hawaiian volcanoes and their Olympic moments: tall, bigger, longer, and deeper

Volcano Watch — Hawaiian volcanoes and their Olympic moments: tall, bigger, longer, and deeper

Over the past couple of weeks, the international competition at the XIX Olympic winter games has captivated winter sports enthusiasts around the world...

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - January 31, 2002

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - January 31, 2002

New rootless shield at 2240 feet, and a trio of hornitos
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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - February 15, 2002

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - February 15, 2002

Chain of rootless shields
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Volcano Watch — Rootless shields and hornitos

Volcano Watch — Rootless shields and hornitos

As many of you die-hard eruption fans already know, lava is no longer entering the ocean, for the first time since last May. The tube leading to the...

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - February 8, 2002

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - February 8, 2002

Lava flows at a rootless shield
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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - February 7, 2002

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - February 7, 2002

Changes in hornitos at 2300 feet
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Volcano Watch — Past magnetism helps understand Kialuea's explosive history

Volcano Watch — Past magnetism helps understand Kialuea's explosive history

Every year about Super Bowl time, Dick Fiske and Tim Rose, volcanologists from the Smithsonian Institution, join HVO's staff for 2-3 weeks to...

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Volcano Watch — Nyirangongo -- Could it happen here?

Volcano Watch — Nyirangongo -- Could it happen here?

At dawn on January 17, 2002, the residents of Goma, a city of 500,000 along the eastern border of the Republic of Congo, awoke to glowing red skies...

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - January 25, 2002

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - January 25, 2002

Rootless shields and hornitos along the main tube system
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Volcano Watch — Expansion of Alaskan Volcano monitoring program continues

Volcano Watch — Expansion of Alaskan Volcano monitoring program continues

In one of the most ambitious volcano-monitoring efforts ever undertaken, scientists of the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) are moving ahead with...

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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - January 17, 2002

Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - January 17, 2002

Views of 2220' rootless shield and 2300' growing hornito
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Volcano Watch — The 1859 eruption of Mauna Loa and its human impact

Volcano Watch — The 1859 eruption of Mauna Loa and its human impact

The 1859 eruption of Mauna Loa began in the evening of January 23. Following a brief summit eruption, an outbreak occurred high on Mauna Loa's...

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