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December 23, 2024 — Young rock, new lava samples from Kīlauea eruption

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Around 2:20 a.m. HST on December 23, 2024, Kīlauea's newest summit eruption began in Halema‘uma‘u. Lava fountains overnight reached up to 90 meters (295 feet) high and threw molten lava up and onto portions of the old Crater Rim Drive in a closed area of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park. USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory field crews collected this frothy, gash-rich pumice and tephra around 5:30 a.m., which arrived at the laboratory at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo around 9 a.m. HST. Lab crews are hard at work preparing these latest eruption samples for rapid geochemical analysis today. USGS photo K. Lynn.

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