Videos

This timelapse video compilation shows Kīlauea summit eruption episodes 34 (October 1), 35 (October 17-18), and 36 (November 9) from two different cameras, one closer to the vent and one farther.  The closer camera sustained heat damage during the intense episode 35 fountaining, making the image slightly blurry.

This timelapse video shows changes to the eruptive vent structure in Kaluapele (Kīlauea's summit caldera) due to repeated episodic lava fountaining that began on December 23, 2024. The images were taken by the B1cam, which is located on the east rim of Kaluapele, and they have been cropped from their original versions. USGS video.

This timelapse video shows the filling of Kaluapele (Kīlauea's summit caldera) with lava due to repeated episodic lava fountaining that began on December 23, 2024. The images were taken by the B1cam, which is located on the east rim of Kaluapele. USGS video. 

Lava fountaining within Halemaʻumaʻu crater, at the summit of Kīlauea, during episode 32 of the ongoing eruption on September 2, 2025. Various views from the north rim of the crater show lava fountaining from the north vent, feeding lava flows on the crater floor. 

This timelapse video (taken by the S2cam on the south rim of the crater) shows all of episode 32 of the ongoing Kīlauea summit eruption, which was active from 6:35 a.m. HST to 8:01 p.m. on September 2. Lava fountains at the north vent reached up to 500 ft (150 m) during this episode. The north vent stopped erupting at 7:49 p.m.

Lava fountained for nearly 13 hours on August 22-23 during episode 31 of the ongoing eruption at the summit of Kīlauea volcano on the Island of Hawaiʻi.

During a USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory helicopter overflight on the morning of August 5, geologists observed a lava pond within the north vent of the ongoing Kīlauea summit eruption. The pond was feeding a subterranean lava tube contained within the east side of the vent cone, toward the floor of Halema‘uma‘u crater.

Since December 23, 2024, 30 episodes of lava fountaining have happened in summit caldera of Kīlauea volcano, in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. 

USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory field engineers visited monitoring stations downwind of the Kīlauea summit eruptive vents on July 10. They wore snowshoes as the large footprint keeps the field engineers walking on top of the frothy pumice everywhere, rather than through it. USGS video. 

During Kīlauea summit eruption episode 28 on Wednesday, July 9, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists conducted an aerial overflight of Halemaʻumaʻu crater, which included a brief landing on the crater floor to collect lava samples.

This video, taken around 6:30 a.m. HST on July 9, 2025, shows the fan-shaped lava fountain being erupted during episode 28 of the ongoing Kīlauea summit eruption. This perspective is from the north rim of Kaluapele, near Kīlauea Overlook within Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. Episode 28 was active for 9 hours, the final 8 of which consisted of high fountaining.

This video shows timelapse sequences for episode 25 and 26 lava fountaining at the summit of Kīlauea. The episodes were similar in that both were dominated by fountaining from the north vent, and reached over 350 m (1150 feet).

This timelapse video shows the lava fountaining during episode 24 of the ongoing summit eruption of Kīlauea. The main fountain, at the north vent (right), grows quickly and soon surpasses the top of the camera image, reaching over 300 meters (1000 ft) high.

This video compilation shows several clips of episode 23 of the ongoing Kīlauea summit eruption taken by the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory livestream cameras. During episode 23, which was active from 4:15 p.m. HST to 10:25 p.m. on May 25, both the north and south vents in Halemaʻumaʻu erupted.

This timelapse video (taken by the V3cam on the south rim of the crater) shows all of episode 23 of the ongoing Kīlauea summit eruption, which was active from 4:15 p.m. HST to 10:25 p.m. on May 25. Both the north and south vents in Halemaʻumaʻu erupted during episode 23. Lava fountains from the north vent reached heights of more than 1,000 feet (300 meters).

This video compilation shows several clips of episode 23 of the ongoing Kīlauea summit eruption, which was active from 4:15 p.m. HST to 10:25 p.m. on May 25. Both the north and south vents in Halemaʻumaʻu erupted during episode 23. Lava fountains from the north vent reached heights of more than 1,000 feet (300 meters).

Kīlauea summit livestream camera viewers have recently observed flames within the vents in Halemaʻumaʻu. These flames, which are often a yellowish orange color, result from hydrogen gas burning in air. Hydrogen is a minor component of volcanic gas released from the hot magma below, and it can sometimes be ignited causing the flames observed recently.

This audio clip is the infrasound recorded during 1 minute on May 3, 2025, at 9:33 p.m.

This video shows a clip from a USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory monitoring helicopter overflight on Tuesday, April 22, when high fountaining was occurring from the south vent at the summit of Kīlauea during episode 18 of the ongoing eruption. Other clips show activity captured during a field visit to the south rim of the caldera.

This timelapse video shows approximately 1 hour of activity compressed into 38 seconds, and covers a period of intermittent activity in the south vent the morning of April 20.

This video shows clips from a helicopter overflight and a field visit by USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologists to the crater rim to observe the lava fountaining in episode 17 of the ongoing summit eruption of Kīlauea.