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USGS: 100 Years of Volcano Monitoring
January 15, 2012 | USGS

“This year, the USGS is proud to celebrate 100 years of continuous volcano monitoring in the United States. Monitoring began in 1912, when Thomas A. Jaggar, Jr., of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founded the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) in the then U.S. territory of Hawai‘i.” Quoted from the USGS press release.


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