HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK – Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano is at it once more, as its most up-to-date eruptive episode started to shoot lava a whole bunch of ft into the air.
In keeping with info supplied by the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO), episode 18 of the continued eruption resumed early Tuesday morning.
Lava started to overflow the south vent about 3:30 a.m. native time, with fountaining from each vents throughout the volcano beginning simply 10 minutes later.
Lava then started to overflow from the north vent at 3:47 a.m. native time.
The HVO mentioned lava fountains have reached heights of greater than 650 ft on the south vent, and greater than 160 ft from the north vent.
The HVO mentioned lava is at present protecting about 20 % of the ground of Halemaʻumaʻu crater.
Earlier than the dramatic lava fountaining started, the HVO mentioned intermittent spattering started throughout the north vent and elevated in depth earlier than lava started erupting.
The HVO mentioned Kilauea’s present eruption in Halemaʻumaʻu crater inside Kaluapele, the summit caldera, began on Dec. 23, 2024.
Since then, there have been 18 eruptive episodes separated by pauses in exercise.
All eruptive exercise stays throughout the nationwide park. Present hazards embody volcanic gasoline emissions, in addition to windblown volcanic glass, referred to as Pele’s hair, and tephra.
Tephra is rock fragments and different particles ejected from a volcano throughout an eruption.
