Photo and Video Chronology

On September 25, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologists surveyed the elevation along a transect across the new tephra cone formed by the recent...

Episode 33 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption started around 3:11 a.m. HST on September 19, 2025 and ended at 12:08 pm HST September 19. On...

Episode 33 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption started around 3:11 a.m. HST on September 19, 2025.  Lava fountain heights reached 700-800 feet (210...

HVO scientists traveled to American Samoa for critical network maintenance, meetings with partners, and community outreach from August 28-September 11...

Gas pistoning continued in the north vent and intermittently in the south vent. Small north vent overflows occurred at 8:38 AM and 8:59 AM HST during...

USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologists visited the caldera rim at Kīlauea summit to assess the aftermath of episode 32 lava fountaining. 

Episode 32 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption started around 6:35 a.m. HST this morning, September 2, 2025.  Lava fountains exceeded 330 feet (100...

USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Scientists visited the V1cam livestream camera site on the morning of August 29 for some maintenance work. 

On August 25, 2025, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory field crews sampled lava and tephra from episode 31 during a morning monitoring overflight of...

Episode 31 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption began at 2:04 p.m. HST on August 22, with lava fountaining from the north vent.

Moderate glow and sustained tremor indicate that magma remains at relatively shallow depths beneath the active vents. On August 18, USGS Hawaiian...

On August 12, USGS-Hawaiian Volcano Observatory field engineers visited monitoring sites on Mauna Loa volcano to upgrade and install new monitoring...

Kīlauea is not erupting. Episode 30 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption took place over about 12 hours on August 6. On August 8, USGS Hawaiian...

Episode 30 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption began at approximately 1:20 a.m. HST on August 6, 2025

The ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption is currently paused. USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists conducted an observational helicopter overflight...

The ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption is currently paused. USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists made observations of the summit region on July 24...

Episode 29 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption ended at 6:35 p.m. HST, July 20, 2025, after over 13 hours of sustained lava fountaining. 

On July 17, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory staff conducted a UAS (uncrewed aircraft systems) flight of the recent eurption site at Kīlauea summit.

Episode 28 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption began at 4:10 a.m. HST on July 9, 2025, and ended abruptly just over 9 hours later, at 1:20 p.m. HST.

Episode 27 of the ongoing eruption in Halemaʻumaʻu began at 9:05 a.m. on June 29 and ended 11 hours later, at 7:54 p.m. HST.