During a two-week trip to American Samoa in August and September, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory staff repaired and serviced the volcano monitoring network and conducted joint K-12 outreach with ...

The Kilauea Volcano erupted early this morning on the Big Island of Hawaii, bringing an end to a prolonged period in volcanic ...

Renewed activity at Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano has prompted temporary trail closures at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park after ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano began its 55th eruptive episode since Dec. 23, 2024, just after 3 a.m. local time Saturday, ...

Parts of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park were closed Thursday after nearly 100 earthquakes were recorded beneath the summit of Kīlauea volcano.

On Sept. 14–16, 2026, a set of six new eruptive fissure vents opened at Kīlauea summit along the western wall of Halemaʻumaʻu. These vents opened after a period of repressurization of the summit magma ...

The Kīlauea volcano shows renewed spattering at two vents as USGS scientists monitor for a possible 55th episode of lava ...

After the Observatory posted its morning update, the north vent began overflowing lava at 11:22 am HST. A large dome fountain ...

The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory detected an increase in shallow seismicity and localized ground deformation beneath the south rim of Halema‘uma‘u crater, in Kilauea summit’s south caldera region ...

The Volcano Observatory Notice to Aviation (VONA) is a notification product used by volcano observatories globally to inform the aviation community (pilots, air traffic managers, dispatchers, ...

Tyler Paladino, research geophysicist at the United States Geological Survey (USGS), will give the talk "Preparing for volcanic eruption hazards using operational geodesy, machine learning, and ...