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Hawaiian Volcano Observatory field engineers on July 10, 2025, visited monitoring stations downwind of the Kīlauea summit ...
Mount Kilauea on Hawaii’s Big Island erupted for nine continuous hours on Wednesday, shooting fountains of lava reaching up ...
COURTESY USGS COURTESY USGS A screenshot of the live view of the eruption in Halemaumau, from the northwest rim of the caldera, as seen this morning. 2 /3 COURTESY USGS A screenshot of the live view ...
KILAUEA, Hawai'i (Island News) -- The 28th episode of Kilauea abruptly ended after hours of fountaining on Wednesday. The eruption ended at 1:20 p.m.
Lava is spewing roughly 1,200 feet into the air at Mount Kilauea. You can watch live above. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) ...
If you’ve been following the ongoing episodic summit eruption of Kīlauea volcano on the Big Island, you might have seen the ...
Dominant trade wind conditions generally send tephra and volcanic gas southwest over the remote Ka ʻū Desert. Eruption viewing areas within the national park are unaffected, but there can be decreased ...
Side-by-side comparison of Mauna Loa summit caldera maps from 1841 by Wilkes (top) and 1872 as published by the Pacific Commercial Advertiser newspaper (bottom). Note contour lines in the center of ...
Lava flowed from Kilauea volcano amid its renewed activity in Hawaii. The U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Hawaiian Volcano Observatory team reported that only weak vent activity was observed ...
Kīlauea began erupting from the southwest part of the caldera at approximately 2:20 a.m. HST on December 23, 2024. Eruptive vents located in the southwest part of the caldera have ...
Gas rose from the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii two days after the lava effusion had ceased. Dramatic footage shows a plume of smoke billowing from the inactive vent at the summit on January 5. The ...
Kilauea was erupting within Halemaʻumaʻu crater in the summit caldera, within a closed area of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, as of 6:30 a.m. local time, after it first erupted around 2:00 a.m.