Scientists are bracing for high lava fountains in the latest episode of an ongoing eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano.

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When magma moves into the rift zone of a Hawaiian volcano, there is understandably a lot of excitement and apprehension. How ...

The known sequence of Maunaloa’s 1868 events began with an eruptive phase beginning at about dawn March 27 at the summit, lasting a couple of hours. Seismicity escalated thereafter, with Kaʻū ...

March 27 marks the anniversary of the onset of Mauna Loa’s dramatic 1868 eruption, when lava flows from the Southwest Rift Zone severely impacted the Ka‘u district. However, this may not have been the ...

Magma moves through Hawaiian rift zones as dikes, which are tabular sheets of magma that move laterally and vertically ...