Many Hawaiʻi Island communities downwind from the eruptive vents in the southwest portion of Halemaʻumaʻu Crater inside the ...

Kīlauea volcano on Hawaiʻi Island erupted again, shooting lava as high as 1,300 feet into the air. This eruption was ...

The eruption pattern is getting more predictable, but other aspects like ashfall, are not.

Visual observations have been a backbone of volcano research more than 2,000 years and remain fundamental to understanding how volcanoes work. Technological advancements — such as livestreaming ...

Kilauea has been erupting episodically within the summit caldera since Dec. 23, 2024. Its USGS Volcano Alert level is WATCH.

The latest activity marks Episode 42 of Kilauea’s ongoing summit eruption, which began on December 23, 2024. This new episode started at 5:20 am IST on February 16, 2026, inside the Halemaumau crater ...

The Piton de la Fournaise's favorable location and the timing during the austral summer school holidays led to a steady stream of thousands of people onto the volcano's massif throughout the night.

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 ...

Forecasting volcanic eruptions in time to alert authorities and populations remains a major global challenge. In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers and engineers from the Institut ...