Hawaii, Kilauea and volcano
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1959 Kīlauea Iki eruption: It happened in the crater just north of the volcano’s caldera, lasting only about a month with 17 episodes and inclined lava fountains, including the highest lava fountains measured on Kīlauea to date at a massive 1,900 feet.
Data from Axial, the most-monitored underwater volcano, are helping geophysicists hone eruption predictions. For Axial, 2026 is their next bet.
PURACE, Colombia -- Oliverio Quira often goes to check on his cattle on a plot of land he owns less than a mile from the Purace volcano in southwestern Colombia. There he sits and watches the billowing ash column rising from the crater.
Volcano Alert Level: Watch. Kīlauea has erupted episodically since Dec. 23, 2024, within the summit caldera located within Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.
The ash plume disrupted flights as far away as India.
Several hours from the Big Island resorts and a few miles from one of the world's most active volcanoes, Volcano Golf Course offers a truly memorable golf experience.
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'Eruption likely': US's most dangerous volcano stirs near major city
On the flanks of Washington State Mount Rainier, a spike in seismic rumbling has revived an old, unsettling question for the Pacific Northwest: what happens when the region’s most dangerous volcano stirs within reach of a major metro area.
Police detectives have identified the remains of man reported missing in December 2015 as 50-year-old Eddie Steve Seenarine of Volcano. In June of this year, police were alerted about the discovery of human skeletal remains in a forested area on the 11-3800 block of 6th Avenue in Volcano, which is in close proximity to where Seenarine lived.