A person has died after reportedly entering a closed-off area near the Kilauea volcano within Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park ...

Visual observations have been a backbone of volcano research more than 2,000 years and remain fundamental to understanding ...

Echinus Geyser in Yellowstone National Park, a rare acidic geyser and the largest in the world, has recently been observed ...

Officials are investigating after a man died following an airlift from a restricted zone at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

A man is dead after officials found him in a closed area near one of the Earth’s most active volcanoes. According to the ...

Most webcams used by the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory take a snapshot every few minutes to conserve bandwidth, but three webcams are currently “livestreaming” — meaning they transmit real-time ...

A 33-year-old Hawaiʻi man has died after being found in a closed area of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park last week. Park officials say the volcano was not erupting at the time of the incident.

The alert level for Mauna Loa is currently “normal”; we expect to see additional changes such as increased seismicity or gas emissions before any future eruption. Even during quiet times, keeping a ...

A dormant volcano in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has recently come back to life after more than 400 years of inactivity. The Krasheninnikova volcano began erupting in early August 2025, capturing the ...

In early February 2026, repeated surges of the geyser began—as before, with the surface becoming agitated and releasing more ...

Learn more about the Echinus Geyser at Yellowstone Park, which recently erupted, but may not sustain into the summer.

The geyser really came alive in fall 2017. From October 18 to November 10, 2017, Echinus consistently erupted roughly about ...