Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano is nearing a baker’s dozen with its newest eruptive episode producing lava fountains within the Halemaʻumaʻu crater.
Based on the US Geological Survey’s (USGS) Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, episode 12 of the Halemaʻumaʻu eruption started on Tuesday at 7:30 a.m. HST when sporadic lava flows alternated between the south and north cones.
The episode ended at 10:37 a.m. HST on Wednesday.
This spherical of lava fountains is the twelfth since Dec. 23, based on the USGS.
Every continues for about 14 hours earlier than pauses between occasions that final between one and 12 days.
Whereas different episodes have produced lava fountains blasting 600 ft into the air, the newest exercise is slower going however nonetheless spectacular, with fountaining between 30 ft and 165 ft.
Nonetheless, the USGS mentioned it anticipated the fountaining to develop.
After a interval of reducing exercise in a single day with the south and north vents, the USGS mentioned the vents started erupting once more after 12 hours of inactivity round 8 a.m. Wednesday.
With the on-and-off lava fountains, Volcanoes Nationwide Park visitors have been handled to superb views from a protected distance.
Nonetheless, Nationwide Park Service officers warn that volcanic exercise can produce hazardous gases like sulfur dioxide.
These particles might be hazardous to these with coronary heart or respiratory points.
The park posts each day sulfur dioxide air high quality alerts, which might be discovered right here.
In the course of the present eruptive exercise, an Orange aviation alert is in place as a result of minor volcanic-ash emissions could possibly be within the airspace across the volcano.
These unable to make the journey to Hawaii can nonetheless see the magnificent volcano in motion by USGS net cameras, which presently present gasoline and lava spewing from the caldera.
