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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 ...
EXCLUSIVE: The cast of Chief of War received a sign from the Hawaiian gods while filming Jason Momoa's epic new historical ...
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 ...
Momoa and series co-creator Thomas Pa'a Sibbett talk crafting the Hawaiian historical epic that the island itself responded ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jason Momoa worked behind and in front of the camera on an epic retelling of the story of the unification of Hawaii.
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Closing Mauna Loa and three other U.S. sites that track greenhouse gases would disrupt a decades-long record of the planet’s ...