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Last week Donald ("Don") Swanson was sworn in as the new Scientist-In-Charge of the US Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Don replaces...

On January 3, 1997, Kīlauea's east rift zone began its 15th year of continuous eruption, the longest rift-zone eruption in written history.

As 1996 draws to a close, we can look back and reflect on the tumultuous year that the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory...

Volcanoes, glacial deposits, and faults related to huge undersea landslides are three of the remarkable geologic features depicted on a colorful new U...

The standard question I get asked by my `ohana and friends is, "What you taking up in college?" I reply, "Geology," and the first thing that comes out...

Last Thursday, scientists at HVO's sister observatory in Vancouver, Washington (the USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory, or CVO) received a distress...

Much has been said in past columns about the volcanic and seismic hazards on the Big Island, but what about the hazards on the other islands?

Visitors to the lava viewing area at the end of the Chain of Craters road in Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park travel over one of the largest fault...

The eruption on Kīlauea's east rift zone has continued with little change since mid-summer. Lava issues at a rate of 6 cubic yards per second from a...

William D. Westervelt, in his 1916 book "Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes", recounted a story about the origin of the two hills called "Na Pu`u a Pele,"...