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When active, Kīlauea pumps out thousands of tons of volcanic gases, namely water vapor, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide.
A two-vehicle collision on Kūhiō Highway in Kīlauea resulted in multiple injuries, a critical condition for a driver, and a ...
Two woman were found dead “deep within” a large banyan tree more than a week after it toppled in Hawaii, police said. No foul ...
HPR contributor Betsy Brown spoke with a USGS geologist during the last eruptive episode to find out what’s causing this ...
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory field engineers on July 10, 2025, visited monitoring stations downwind of the Kīlauea summit ...
This photo was taken by a Hawaiian Volcano Observatory monitoring webcam just before 6 a.m. July 9, 2025, during Episode 28 ...
Check out Kilauea’s Halemaʻumaʻu crater, where the 29th episode of the ongoing eruption is underway. Lava began fountaining at around 5:15 a.m. on Sunday, and fountains have reached more than 200 ft.
Lava is once again shooting skyward at Kīlauea's summit in Hawaiʻi, as Episode 27 of explosive fountaining was captured by ...
Update at 3:12 a.m. July 21, 2025: Hawai‘i Island police on Sunday afternoon recovered the bodies of two women from within a massive iconic banyan tree that uprooted and crashed down a week ago across ...
Kīlauea’s eruption on September 10 ended after six days and “was the briefest of the five eruptions that have occurred at the summit of Kīlauea since 2020,” the USGS said.
If you’ve been following the ongoing episodic summit eruption of Kīlauea volcano on the Big Island, you might have seen the terms “gas piston” or “gas pistoning” show up in some of the Hawaiian ...