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This week's Volcano Watch is a photo essay featuring notable images from Kīlauea Volcano's two ongoing eruptions: East Rift Zone (Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō), which...

Since the end of February 2017, HVO seismic analysts have noted a slight uptick in the numbers of earthquakes near Lō‘ihi.

Tim Orr accepted a research geology position at the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) in Anchorage, so he's headed north to Alaska. 

Field engineers at the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) recently completed a multi-year effort to upgrade a subset of seismic stations at the...

On the Island of Hawai‘i, deformation is measured primarily with three techniques: tiltmeters, GPS (Global Positioning System), and InSAR...

Both volcanoes and landslides are important for landscape evolution in Hawaii and worldwide. In Washington State, an old legend makes the connection...

A new structure allows for a more efficient and consistent website, with simplified maintenance that leads to fewer broken links.

 

This week's Volcano Watch was written by USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologist Don Swanson, who worked on Mount St. Helens before and after the...

USGS scientists hiked to the summit of Mauna Loa, where they checked on HVO's monitoring instruments and realigned an antenna that allows webcam...

With funding from USGS data rescue initiatives, HVO scanned seismograms from a number of significant earthquakes and seismic sequences. Since last...