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Hawaii’s Mount Kilauea is erupting yet again. The volcano is one of the world's most active, and has been erupting on and off since late December in 2024 ...
Fast forward to 2025, and there have been only three eruptions of Mauna Loa in the past 75 years since 1950: 1975, 1984, and ...
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory field engineers on July 10, 2025, visited monitoring stations downwind of the Kīlauea summit ...
According to the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO), dome fountains and lava overflows began at the Halema'uma'u crater shortly after 4:00 a.m. Hawaii Standard Time ...
Some of Scotland’s most iconic islands were born from a network of erupting fissures, just like those found in Hawaii and ...
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is erupting again in spectacular fashion, sending lava shooting 1,000 feet into the sky, according to the United States Geological Survey.
The spectacular lava fountains that marked Kilauea’s 27th eruptive episode came to an abrupt stop at 7:54 p.m. Sunday, capping nearly 11 hours of volcanic activity inside Halemaʻumaʻu crater.
A seismologist from Seattle discussed recent volcanic activity across the United States. Here's what you should know.
If you’ve been following the ongoing episodic summit eruption of Kīlauea volcano on the Big Island, you might have seen the terms “gas piston” or “gas pistoning” show up in some of the Hawaiian ...
Hawaiian volcanoes suddenly go quiet, but scientists don’t know exactly why. The pause in Mauna Loa and Kilauea’s eruptions highlights broader challenges experts face in understanding when and ...
In Hawaiian tradition, Kilauea is home to the volcano goddess Pele. Kilauea has erupted 34 times since 1952. From 1983 to 2018, it erupted almost continuously, in some cases sending streams of ...