Images

This is a closer look at the spatter cone on the northwest side of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō's crater floor. The photo was taken from near the site of the webcam on the north rim of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō.

The "spillway"—Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō's eastern flank—has been buried by flows fed mostly from a spatter cone on the northeastern side of the crater floor. Most of the dark-colored lava in the foreground is new lava that has resurfaced the spillway. The fume to the left is the trace of the Peace Day tube, newly covered by crater overflows, currently carrying lava to the coast.

The lava lake in Halema‘uma‘u remains poised at a relatively high level within the Overlook pit. The lake level dropped over the weekend. Though rising again now, it has not yet reached last week's level.

Lava continues to enter the ocean near Kupapa‘u Point, with an entry point just inside the National Park (near left side of photo) and entry points just east of the Park boundary (near the center of the photo). Widely scattered patches of surface lava are also active inland from the ocean entry points.

The flow traveling north from Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō, which we are informally calling the Kahauale‘a flow, abuts the edge of episode 58 flows erupted during 2007-2008. The flow has also partially surrounded one of the few vestiges of greenery within the flow field—the forested top of the old Kahauale‘a cone.

This is a steep aerial view of the small lava pond at the top of the spatter cone on the northeastern side of the crater floor. Lava in the pond flows directly into a lava tube which is supplying the active flow northeast of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō. The head of the tube, marked by fume, extends from the pond toward the left side of the photo.

Lava continues to enter the ocean near Kupapa‘u Point, with an entry point just inside the National Park (near left side of photo) and entry points just east of the Park boundary (near the center of the photo). Widely scattered patches of surface lava are also active inland from the ocean entry points.

The flow traveling north from Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō, which we are informally calling the Kahauale‘a flow, abuts the edge of episode 58 flows erupted during 2007-2008. The flow has also partially surrounded one of the few vestiges of greenery within the flow field—the forested top of the old Kahauale‘a cone.

This is a steep aerial view of the small lava pond at the top of the spatter cone on the northeastern side of the crater floor. Lava in the pond flows directly into a lava tube which is supplying the active flow northeast of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō. The head of the tube, marked by fume, extends from the pond toward the left side of the photo.

This is another of the spatter cones on the floor of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō. This one, on the northeast side of the crater floor, has long had an open top with a view of a small lava lake.

There are currently four spatter cones on the floor of the Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō crater that have been the source of lava flows over the past several months. The one shown here is on the northwest side of the crater floor, close to the multiframe webcam shown on our website. The webcam, and an HVO geologist standing next to it, give a sense of scale for the spatter cone.

Kīlauea Volcano's summit vent within Halema‘uma‘u Crater was more than 500 feet across in March 2013, five years after it opened.

This image was captured on Wednesday, February 13, by the Advanced Land Imager sensor aboard NASA's Earth Observing 1 satellite. Although this is a false-color image, the color map has been chosen to mimic what the human eye would expect to see. Bright red pixels depict areas of very high temperatures, and show active or very recently active lava flows.

Highway 504 is shown in upper right.

Lava from the tiny lava pond flows directly into a tube on its north side. In this photo, the tube starts at the left edge of the pond and heads toward the heavy fume at the left edge of the photo.

This photo, captured fortuitously, shows a lava flow seconds after it burst from the side of a low tumulus. While initially relatively fast-moving, the flow slowed to a crawl within a few minutes, matching the very slow advancement rate seen elsewhere along the front of the flow.

A small lava lake, which has been present on the northeast side of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō's crater floor for nearly a year, has evolved into a tiny pond perched several meters (yards) above the surrounding crater floor, as pictured here. The pond sits near the top of a mound of lava composed of spatter cones and lava pond overflows.

Since the beginning of the year, lava erupting from several openings in Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō's crater have filled the crater to overflowing. The two eastern-most openings, topped by spatter cones, can be seen in this photo. The one in the background holds the small lava pond shown in the photos above and feeding the northern lava flow.

This photo, captured fortuitously, shows a lava flow seconds after it burst from the side of a low tumulus. While initially relatively fast-moving, the flow slowed to a crawl within a few minutes, matching the very slow advancement rate seen elsewhere along the front of the flow.

This photo, captured fortuitously, shows a lava flow seconds after it burst from the side of a low tumulus. While initially relatively fast-moving, the flow slowed to a crawl within a few minutes, matching the very slow advancement rate seen elsewhere along the front of the flow.

A small lava lake, which has been present on the northeast side of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō's crater floor for nearly a year, has evolved into a tiny pond perched several meters (yards) above the surrounding crater floor, as pictured here. The pond sits near the top of a mound of lava composed of spatter cones and lava pond overflows.