Hawai'i Volcano Blog

This week’s Volcano Watch explains how scientists at Hawaiian Volcano Observatory have been able to successfully forecast eruptions on the Big Island, although only an hour or so before it happens.

Kīlauea erupted on June 7, 2023 at 4:44 a.m. on Hawaiʻi Island. The volcano put on quite the spectacular lava show duing the first day of this eruption. Check out the video and slideshow.

On Thursday morning, one day after Kīlauea began erupting at 4:44 a.m. on Wednesday, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory has lowered  alert levels because the initial high effusion rates of lava and gas have declined, and no infrastructure is threatened. 

For the past two and half weeks, scientists have been monitoring earthquakes that were rumbling beneath the crater and along the southwest rift zone, which is located within Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, and along the Nāmakaniopaio fault line, also within the park between Mauna Loa and Kīlauea.

With Halemaʻumaʻu crater quickly filling with lava Wednesday morning, an official at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park said there is no bad place to watch Kīlauea’s latest eruption.

Halemaʻumaʻu Crater at the summit of Kilauea volcano is erupting, producing a burst of volcanic emissions starting at 4:44 a.m. Wednesday morning, according to the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.

At the U.S. Army Garrison Pōhakuloa Training Area on the Big island, scientists recently conducted two diverse projects: one about the Hawaiian bud moth and one about the 2022 Mauna Loa eruption.

The remote sensing technique, InSAR, detected deformation of a volcano previously considered inactive in Southeast Alaska.

Hawaiian oral traditions are full of riveting stories — like the two chiefs of Kahuku who became the two hills of Nāpuʻuapele. They can be traced in some cases directly to the eruptions they record.

Starting on May 26, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park will transition to a cashless system for entrance fees and passes.

Since that 2018 activity, Kīlauea has experienced nearly constant change with distinct episodes of calm, unrest, eruptions and everything in between.

May 2023 marks the 99th anniversary of a sequence of explosive eruptions from the summit of Kīlauea volcano on the Big Island that occurred throughout 16 days from May 11-27, 1924.

The deep 3.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the Big Island on May 7 is part of the swarm of earthquakes that has been occurring beneath the Pāhala region since 2019.

Due to collaborative conservation efforts and a fortunate discovery, the critically endangered Kaʻū silversword is making a comeback within Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.

Five years ago, volcanic activity at Kīlauea on the Big Island dramatically changed when magma intruded into the lower East Rift Zone. What happened at Kīlauea in 2018?

Exactly five years ago, Kīlauea began to spew lava that would prove to be the most destructive eruption in Hawai‘i in two centuries.

The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory on the Big Island has grown and changed significantly during the past 111 years.

Scientists explain why the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said during the initial state of the 2022 Mauna Loa eruption was within the caldera although people in Kona could see lava descending the western flank of the mountain.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park invites everyone to join the celebration of National Park Week from April 22 to April 30 with free programs, events and activities.

The dilapidated remains of Coco Palms, which once hosted Elvis Presley, will be demolished and a new 350-room hotel and cultural center will be built on the Kauaʻi property, according to Utah-based developers that own the 46-acre site.