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Map showing flow field changes
This map shows recent changes to Kīlauea’s active East Rift Zone lava flow field.
Map showing flow field changes
This map shows recent changes to Kīlauea’s active East Rift Zone lava flow field.
Small-scale map of flow field
This small-scale map shows Kīlauea’s active East Rift Zone lava flow in relation to the eastern part of the Island of Hawai‘i.
Map with thermal mosaic overlay
This map overlays a georeferenced thermal image mosaic onto the flow field change map to show the distribution of active and recently active breakouts.
Map showing flow field changes
This map shows recent changes to Kīlauea’s active East Rift Zone lava flow field.
Small-scale map of flow field
This small-scale map shows Kīlauea’s active East Rift Zone lava flow in relation to lower Puna.
Map showing flow field changes
This map shows recent changes to Kīlauea’s active East Rift Zone lava flow field.
Map with thermal mosaic overlay
This map overlays a georeferenced thermal image mosaic onto the flow field change map to show the distribution of active and recently active breakouts.
Map showing flow field changes
This map shows recent changes to Kīlauea’s active East Rift Zone lava flow field.
Landsat satellite image shows June 27th lava flow
This satellite image was captured on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 by the Landsat 8 satellite.
Map with thermal mosaic overlay
This map overlays a georeferenced thermal image mosaic onto the flow field change map above and shows the distribution of active and recently active breakouts.
Map showing flow field changes
This map shows recent changes to Kīlauea’s active East Rift Zone lava flow field.
Kīlauea Volcano — Fissure 8 Night View
Night view of the lava channel toward fissure 8 under a nearly full moon. This image was taken from an observation point near the right-hand bend in the channel
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Kīlauea Volcano — Ocean Entry
View of the ocean entry (lower left) from this morning's overflight. Lava was entering the ocean across a broad area primarily on the north part of the lava delta. Upslope along the northern margin of the flow field, lava is still oozing from several points in the area of Kapoho Beach Lots. Fissure 8
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Kīlauea Volcano — Channel Overflow
A small overflow from the lava channel (left side of image) captured by an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). Small overflows on both sides of the channel occurred shortly after midnight in the uppermost part of channel. None of these overflows extended past the existing flow field.
Kīlauea Volcano — Overflows
Overflows from the perched lava channel are seen as incandescent (glowing) fingers moving down the sides of the channel (left side of photo). Fissure 8
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Kīlauea Volcano — Kapoho Coastline Ocean Entries
Lava continues to enter the sea along the southern Kapoho coastline. Lava enters the ocean primarily through an open channel, but also along a 1-km (0.6 mi) wide area. Also visible in the image (center right) is an area at the northern margin of the flow field that is oozing fresh lava at several points in the area of Kapoho Beach Lots.
Kīlauea Volcano — Lava Channel Branches Off
Southward facing view of the point at which the fissure 8 lava channel bifurcates.
Kīlauea Volcano — Laze Plumes
Lava from fissure 8 is entering the sea this morning on the southern portion of the flow front primarily through the open channel, but also along this 1 km (0.6 mi) wide area with multiple laze plumes from smaller oozing lobes.
Kīlauea Volcano — Ocean Entry
North facing view of the 1 km (0.6 mi) long ocean entry with multiple lobes of lava flowing into the sea.
Kīlauea Volcano — Remobilized Ash Plume
Recent explosive events haven't produced significant ash plumes from the summit, but downwind communities may still experience ashfall when previously erupted ash is remobilized. On authorized permission from Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, our Unmanned Aircraft Systems crew is conducting gas measurements at Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō. They snapped this photograph from Chain of Craters
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Kīlauea Volcano — Braided Lava Channels
Lava within the braided portion of the fissure 8
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Kīlauea Volcano — Eruption Lava Flow Timelapse
A new video shows a timelapse of the lava flows erupted in Kīlauea's Lower East Rift Zone between May
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Activity at Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō and on the 61g flow
Lava breakouts continue on the coastal plain and on the delta
Using detailed geologic mapping and modeling of how a fluid (in this case, lava) responds to surface topography, USGS-HVO constructed nine maps depicting 18 inundation zones on Mauna Loa. Each zone identifies a segment of the volcano that could erupt lava and send flows downslope.
The U.S. Geological Survey has produced a documentary, "Kīlauea Summit Eruption–Lava Returns to Halema‘uma‘u," to tell the story of the eruption, and to share imagery of the inaccessible lava lake with the public.
Pāhoehoe breakouts on the coastal plain
Breakouts remain active on flow field, changes to ocean entry lava delta
As the summer months began to wind down this year, Nature's fury began to wind up and grab much of the news cycle.
Kamokuna Lavafalls Oct 3-5
Breakouts remain active on the coastal plain and pali
Coastal breakouts put on a show
In today's age of aerial photography, satellites, and drones, bird's-eye views of geologic features are taken for granted. A century ago, such depictions posed enormous challenges.
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