Images

A video showing the channelized flow near the flow front.

The flow front reached the base of the pali yesterday, and over the past day has begun spreading out a short distance onto the coastal plain. Channelized ‘A‘ā remains active on the steep portion of the pali, with several parallel channels of swiftly moving lava.

A view looking up the pali, with the channels feeding lava to the flow front, which is spreading out at the base of the pali in the bottom of the photograph.

A section of the channelized ‘A‘ā, with what appears to be a small surge of lava moving through the channel.

Just above the steep section of the pali, the lava flow transitions from tube-fed pāhoehoe to the open channels that are feeding lava at the flow front.

A look into one of several skylights on the lava tube. The brightest area is the open lava stream.

The flow front was reaching the base of the pali today, burning vegetation in the adjacent kipuka. The front consisted of ‘A‘ā that was fed by a narrow channel extending down the steep section of the pali.

A mango tree is surrounded by the ‘A‘ā flow.

The flow front as it approaches another mango tree.

The flow front was supplied by a narrow channelized section on the steep portion of the pali.

Up close view of the front of the ‘A‘ā flow.

Close view of ‘A‘ā blocks in the channel of the flow.

A close-up of clinker at the flow front.

Another view of the flow front, contrasting the hot fluid core of the flow (red) with the brittle clinker (black) that forms the flow exterior.

A video of the flow front moving through vegetation.

A wider view of the lake in Halema‘uma‘u Crater, looking northeast. Jaggar Museum and HVO are beyond the left edge of the photograph. Spattering was active in the southeast portion of the lake.

A typical boundary between crustal plates on the lava lake surface. The plate in the upper left is moving towards the upper left corner of the image.

A video of the spattering in the lava lake at Kīlauea's summit.

The active lava flow from Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō was on the slope near the top of the Pūlama pali today, one of the steep escarpments on Kīlauea's southeast flank, and had transitioned into a channelized ‘A‘ā flow. The view is to the northwest.

At the time the photograph was taken, the active lava flow from Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō was on the slope near the top of the Pūlama pali, one of the steep escarpments on Kīlauea's southeast flank, and had transitioned into a channelized ‘a‘ā flow.

This photo is a view from the edge of the ‘A‘ā flow, looking up slope at the flow's channels.