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The Kīlauea Seismic Imaging Project continues, as does the annual Mauna Loa GPS campaign.

The recent 2022 Mauna Loa eruption began just before midnight, at 11:21 p.m. on November 27.  The first caldera floor fissures were visible in webcams...

During the week of April 10, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory upgraded the Hualālai Repeater station and installed a new webcam looking at the...

Fieldwork for the Kīlauea Seismic Imaging Project, which will provide a new detailed view of shallow subsurface structures and the magma system...

Shiny and elusive, featherlight and golden-brown. If poets were to write about rocks, I’m sure they would sing their praises of Pele’s hairs. Don’t be...

Understanding volcanic eruptions requires learning about where the erupted lavas come from deep within the volcano. But how do scientists get...

Mauna Loa’s recent eruption is still fresh in the minds of Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) scientists and Island of Hawai‘i residents. Now is a...

When Mauna Loa erupted in November 2022 for the first time in nearly forty years, one of the main concerns was the lava and where it would flow. But...

Real-time views of an eruption site are a vital source of information for emergency managers, so webcams are one of the most important tools in an...

HVO Geophysicists perform post-eruption survey of Mauna Loa.