HAWAII — The Kīlauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island stopped erupting on Sunday after flowing for almost 10 hours. At its highest, the fountain of lava soared 1,300 feet in the air from the south vent, ...

Most webcams used by the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory take a snapshot every few minutes to conserve bandwidth, but three webcams are currently “livestreaming” — meaning they transmit real-time ...

Volcano Watch” is a weekly article and activity update written by U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and affiliates. Today’s article is by Hawaiian Volcano Observatory ...

Visual observations have been a backbone of volcano research more than 2,000 years and remain fundamental to understanding ...

Mount Spurr, located roughly 75 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, may erupt in coming weeks, experts say.

Residents and visitors alike have been watching episodic lava fountains in Halema‘uma‘u at the summit of Kilauea since late December 2024. While beautiful and safe to view, this activity has left ...

When referred to as a gas, it means a volatile has transitioned into the vapor phase. The most common gases (or vapor phase volatiles) emitted at the surface are water (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), and ...

The U.S. Geological Survey has selected Dr. Ken Hon as the new Scientist-in-Charge at the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory in Hilo, Hawaii. HVO was founded in 1912 by Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar, and Hon ...

This week the U.S. Geological Survey Cascades Volcano Observatory, in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service and Mount Hood National Forest, installed three new volcano monitoring stations on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you think of the United States, images of sprawling cities and vast landscapes might come to mind, but not the hidden and ...

Volcanoes and earthquakes have always shared the same restless roots, but the numbers that drive public fear are not always the ones scientists are actually using. A viral claim that a swarm of 10,000 ...