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Fast forward to 2025, and there have been only three eruptions of Mauna Loa in the past 75 years since 1950: 1975, 1984, and ...
The "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" rapper was a passenger in a car that was pulled over at Melrose and Genesee in Los Angeles at 2 ...
Momoa and series co-creator Thomas Pa'a Sibbett talk crafting the Hawaiian historical epic that the island itself responded ...
Around 10:20 p.m. on Nov. 27, 2022, the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory monitoring networks detected rapid changes in Mauna Loa’s summit area. A swarm of small, shallow earthquakes occurred ...
Jason Momoa worked behind and in front of the camera on an epic retelling of the story of the unification of Hawaii.
At 1:24 p.m. July 29, a magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. A tsunami warning was issued at 2:43 p.m. for Hawai‘i, and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a forecast ...
More than half of the world’s critical mineral resources formed in ancient volcanic systems. When exploring for mineral ...
Closing Mauna Loa and three other U.S. sites that track greenhouse gases would disrupt a decades-long record of the planet’s ...
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The park is home to two of the world’s most active volcano summits: Kilauea and Mauna Loa. Here's what you need to know if you are planning on travelling to or from the affected area.
The volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii has been erupting on-and-off since Dec. 23. It's shot tall fountains of lava high into the air and spilled molten rock across the caldera floor each time it ...