The episodic summit eruption of Kīlauea in Halemaʻumaʻu Crater has been going on for more than 3 months now, with 16 eruptive ...

During a monitoring overflight on April 9, 2025, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory field crews observed that the ponded lava in the north vent from April 8 had drained and/or collapsed. The south vent ...

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reports that the lava geysers were preceded by more than 100 cycles of lava rise and fall, vent overflows and spatter fountains in the north vent, a phenomenon known as ...

Magma moves through Hawaiian rift zones as dikes, which are tabular sheets of magma that move laterally and vertically ...

One of the world’s most active volcanos, Hawaii’s Kilauea, erupted Monday, marking episode 16 of the eruption since late December. The United States Geological Survey said the ...

“Hawaiian lava flows generally advance slowly downslope, and during this eruption flows have been confined to Halemaʻumaʻu crater and the southwest side of Kaluapele, Kīlauea’s summit ...

The episodic summit eruption of Kīlauea in Halemaʻumaʻu crater has been going on for over three months now, with 16 eruptive episodes displaying lava fountains and lava flows within Kaluapele (the ...

When the Kīlauea Volcano erupted in May 2018, an enormous amount of ash was released into the atmosphere in a plume nearly five miles high. A new study by an international team of researchers ...