When magma moves into the rift zone of a Hawaiian volcano, there is understandably a lot of excitement and apprehension. How ...

Hundreds of dikes can invade the cone and inner core of a volcano, often along zones of structural weakness. Left: An exposed dike, approximately five feet wide, at the caldera of Mauna Loa ...

showing the structure of the volcano and the mobile south flank. The June 17 dike intruded into the East Rift Zone and triggered the slow-slip event, that most likely occurred on the decollement ...

WHAT HAPPENS BEFORE A VOLCANO ERUPTS? That lower limit was believed ... to build up enough in the system to trigger the next ...

The linear pattern of subsidence seen in InSAR images is apparent after nearly all dike intrusions at Hawaiian volcanoes. For example, subsidence occurred for a few years above the so-called ...

There are many different kinds of volcanoes, ranging from the Hawaiian type, which produces gentle, effusive eruptions that tourists can observe from mere steps away, to the andesitic variety ...