Crater geometry data for Puʻuʻōʻō, on Kīlauea Volcano’s East Rift Zone, in May 2018
The 2018 lower East Rift Zone eruption and accompanying summit collapse of Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaiʻi, comprised one of the most impactful events on the volcano in the past 200 years, with hundreds of homes destroyed and major changes in the topography of the summit caldera. The opening stages of this eruptive sequence started on 30 April, when a magmatic dike began moving east from Puʻuʻōʻō, a cone with a central crater that was the vent region for Kīlauea’s 35-year middle East Rift Zone eruption starting in 1983. The rapid migration of magma from beneath Puʻuʻōʻō caused its crater floor to drop over 300 m.
This data release includes a three-dimensional model of Puʻuʻōʻō and the collapse crater, constructed from aerial thermal images collected on 11 May 2018. Structure-from-motion processing was used to create the model from the sequence of oblique images, and ground control using kinematic GPS was used to georegister the model. These data provide a detailed record of the surface changes associated with the rapid magma migration that occurred on 30 April 2018.
These data were used in the gravity study by Poland and others (2020, 2021).
Citation Information
| Publication Year | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Title | Crater geometry data for Puʻuʻōʻō, on Kīlauea Volcano’s East Rift Zone, in May 2018 |
| DOI | 10.5066/P99QB29I |
| Authors | Matthew R Patrick |
| Product Type | Data Release |
| Record Source | USGS Digital Object Identifier Catalog |
| USGS Organization | USGS Volcano Science Center |
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