USGS

Congress allocates $2 million from the USGS ShakeAlert budget to begin building Alaska's first earthquake early warning system, targeting 90 percent of the state's population.

Kīlauea's 43rd eruptive episode on March 10 produced record 540-meter lava fountains and sent ash across communities 80 kilometers away, prompting closures and flight cancellations as USGS forecasts Episode 44 for late March.