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Earthquakes Increase from 60/Week to 600/Week on Hawaii Island

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - January 16, 2023

The location of permanent and temporary seismic instruments deployed across the southeast part of the Island of Hawai‘i. Shaded white areas show dense regions of earthquakes interpreted as the Pāhala sill complex. Dashed white box outlines a region of sparsely spaced volcano-tectonic earthquakes that lie between the Kīlauea summit and Pāhala. Image: USGS

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Earthquake Strikes Between Hawaii’s Mauna Loa and Kilauea Volcanoes

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - January 3, 2023

An earthquake struck in between Mauna Loa and Kilaeau volcanoes this morning, rattling and waking up people in the early morning hours. Image: USGS

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Volcanoes Go Quiet on Hawaii; Large Areas Remain Closed Indefinitely

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - December 13, 2022

For the first time since 1984, visitors to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park could see two volcanoes erupt. In this picture, you can see the glow from Kilauea Volcano on the left side while the glow from a fissure and lava flow from Mauna Loa lights up the sky on the right. Image: HVNPS

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Mauna Loa Eruption on Pause for Now; End May be in Sight at World’s Largest Volcano

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - December 11, 2022

Lava is no longer fountaining out of this fissure on the northeast rift zone of the Mauna Loa volcano. Meanwhile, USGS scientists, visible at the bottom of the cone for scale, continue to take measurements to check on the status of the eruption. Image: USGS

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Online Community Meeting Planned as World’s Largest Volcano Rumbles to Life in Hawaii

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - November 26, 2022

Community members come together in Pahala Community to hear from USGS and the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and Hawaii County Civil Defense on October 27, 2022. Image: Weatherboy

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Earthquake Activity Continues to Increase at World’s Largest Volcano: Hawaii’s Mauna Loa

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - November 13, 2022

Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano rises into the clouds on the Big Island. Image: Weatherboy

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As Eruption Threat Looms at World’s Largest Active Volcano, Hawaii Officials Hold More Community Meetings

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - November 7, 2022

More than 200 people came out to hear speakers from USGS, Civil Defense, and Hawaii County Government discuss Mauna Loa Volcano in this elementary school gym in South Kona on Hawaii's Big Island on Saturday, November 5, 2022. Image: Weatherboy

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Community Meeting Held in Hawaii as World’s Largest Active Volcano Shakes to Life; Caution & Preparation Urged

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - October 28, 2022

Community members come together in Pahala Community to hear from USGS and the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and Hawaii County Civil Defense on October 27, 2022. Image: Weatherboy

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Earthquake Swarm Underway at World’s Largest Active Volcano; USGS Issues Update

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - September 24, 2022

More than 700 earthquakes have hit in and around the Big Island of Hawaii in the last 30 days, with the epicenter of each indicated by a dot on this map. The oldest earthquakes are white, the orange is the most recent, and the yellow shows earthquakes that hit between the white and orange ones. The red dot indicates the location of the last earthquake. Image: USGS

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Moderate Quake Shakes Hawaii as Volcanic Eruption Continues; USGS Changes Warning Level

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - October 6, 2021

Lava erupts from a cone within the caldera of Kilauea Volcano's summit on the Big Island of Hawaii. Image: USGS/HVO

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Volcano Experiences Earthquake Swarm in Hawaii ; ADVISORY/YELLOW Alert Remains

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - August 24, 2021

In this current view of the caldera at Kilauea Volcano, there is surface lava activity. But that could change with seismic activity increasing here in the last 24 hours. Image: Weatherboy

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Earthquake Shakes Mauna Loa, World’s Largest Active Volcano

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - April 11, 2021

The summit of the Mauna Loa volcano is dusted by a recent snowstorm in Hawaii. Image: Weatherboy

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Stronger Earthquakes Shake the World’s Largest Volcano Today

by Weatherboy Team Meteorologist - April 3, 2021

In 2020, HVO geophysicists conducted an annual high-precision Global Positioning System (GPS) survey of Mauna Loa, which supplements HVO's continuous GPS monitoring stations. The annual GPS surveys provide information on vertical and horizontal deformation, informing HVO about the volume changes within subsurface magma res rvoirs at Mauna Loa. This station was located on the north flank of Mauna Loa, with Mauna Kea (hugged by clouds on its east side) visible in the background. Image: USGS / S. Conway.

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