say eruption could end soon Scientists lowered the alert level for the Mauna Loa volcano on Hawaii's Big Island from a warning to a watch on Saturday and said the mountain's first eruption in ...

Snow in Hawaii sounds like an oxymoron, but it's more common than you think. From April 9-10, 1968, 57 years ago this week, ...

Shield volcanoes do not have such violent eruptions. These volcanoes tend to have gentle slopes and their runnier lava spreads and hardens over a wider area. Mauna Loa in Hawaii is an example of a ...

Haleakala, a huge shield volcano on Maui. Snow is actually a fact of life each year over the islands' peaks. Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, slumbering volcanoes on the Big Island, are the highest points ...