Naming process underway for fissure 8
Pahoa Elementary School students visit new lava museum
County reopening popular Puna beach park
HILO — One of lower Puna’s most popular beach parks will officially reopen next week after a six-month-plus closure because of lava.
We’re giving thanks for clean air, but what’s that new smell?
VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK — We’re giving thanks for clean air, but what’s that new smell?
A summit collapse 150 years ago had similarities to the 2018 collapse
The prolonged yet dramatic partial collapse of Kilauea caldera this past summer was the first to be observed in detail and the largest measured by subsidence volume of more than a dozen summit collapses in the past 200 years.
Thurston Lava Tube likely to remain closed until 2019
HILO — While much of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park has been reopened since its historic closure earlier this year, some parts likely will remain closed until at least next year.
Despite HVO’s displacement, close monitoring of Kilauea continues
Kilauea 2018 events mark a watershed for volcano science
VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK — The 2018 summit collapse and lower East Rift Zone eruption at Kilauea Volcano were dramatic and, for many Island of Hawaii residents, tragic events. As with all eruptive crises, these events offered exceptional opportunities to learn more about how volcanoes work and to answer some “bigger picture” questions.
Kilauea tops list of ‘very high threat’ US volcanoes
WASHINGTON — Government scientists have classified 18 U.S. volcanoes as “very high threat” because of what’s been happening inside them and how close they are to people.
