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Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō and Episode 61 flow field: December 2, 2011
Map showing Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō and the extent of nearby lava flows.
Kīlauea East Rift Zone Eruption Map: December 2, 2011
Map showing the extent of lava flows erupted during Kīlauea's ongoing east rift zone eruption and labeled with the years in which they were active.
Kīlauea East Rift Zone Eruption Map: November 21, 2011
Map showing the extent of lava flows erupted during Kīlauea's ongoing east rift zone eruption and labeled with the years in which they were active.
Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō and Episode 61 flow field: November 21, 2011
Map showing Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō and the extent of nearby lava flows.
Kīlauea East Rift Zone Eruption Map: November 10, 2011
Map showing the extent of lava flows erupted during Kīlauea's ongoing east rift zone eruption and labeled with the years in which they were active.
Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō and Episode 61 flow field: November 10, 2011
Map showing Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō and the extent of nearby lava flows.
Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō and Episode 61 flow field: November 3, 2011
Map showing Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō and the extent of nearby lava flows.
Kīlauea East Rift Zone Eruption Map: November 3, 2011
Lava flows erupted during Kīlauea's ongoing east rift zone eruption and labeled with the years in which they were active.
Kīlauea East Rift Zone Eruption Map: October 25, 2011
Map showing the extent of lava flows erupted during Kīlauea's ongoing east rift zone eruption and labeled with the years in which they were active.
Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō: October 25, 2011
Map showing Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō and the extent of nearby lava flows.
Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō
Map showing the current configuration of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō.
Kīlauea East Rift Zone Eruption Map
Map showing the extent of lava flows erupted during Kīlauea's ongoing east rift zone eruption.
Kīlauea Volcano — Kapoho Bay and Vacationland
Lava from fissure 8 travels about 13 km (8 mi) down a well established channel (visible in the center of the image) to an ocean entry at Kapoho. Lava is building a seaward delta that is approximately 320 acres in size. The view is to the southwest with the Kapoho area in the lower right. The white
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Kīlauea Volcano — Fissure 8 Lava Fountain
Photograph taken during helicopter overflight captures fissure 8 lava fountain.
Kīlauea Volcano — Ocean Entry
The ocean entry remains fairly broad with a white steam/laze plume blowing onshore. USGS image taken June 15, 2018.
Kīlauea Volcano — Spatter Cone Building
Lava fountains from Fissure 8 reach heights of 200 ft overnight. The cinder and spatter cone that is building around
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Kīlauea Volcano — Halema`uma`u Crater Enlargement
This animated GIF shows a sequence of radar amplitude images that were acquired by the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana CosmoSkyMed satellite system. The images illustrate changes to the
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seismologists install a nodal geophone on Kīlauea's lower East Rift Zo
University of Utah seismologists install a nodal geophone on Kīlauea's lower East Rift Zone in June 2018. This instrument was part of a network of 82 seismometers deployed temporarily this summer to help scientists study the magma transport system beneath the volcano's eruption sites.
Live stream camera captures subsidence at Halema‘uma‘u
On June 15, 2018, a small explosion occurred at Kīlauea's summit at 11:56:39 AM HST. The event was captured by a live streaming camera and that footage is presented in this video clip. The
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Kīlauea Volcano — Fissure 8 Cone Building
The Fissure 8 viewed from the north at 7:50 AM. The cone is roughly 50 m (165 ft) high at is peak, and a plume of sulfur dioxide and other volcanic gases rises as an orange tinge from the erupting lava fountains (hidden within the cone). Lava is still flowing out of the ventunabated as a full channel. To the left of the cone, a standing wave of lava can be seen in the
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Kīlauea Volcano — Laze Plumes
Several laze plumes rise along the ocean entry margin as break outs feed many small and large flows. The largest Pāhoehoe breakout area is on the northern margin of the flow.
Kīlauea Volcano — Pāhoehoe Breakouts
A close up view of the pāhoehoe breakouts along the northern ocean entry.
USGS Status Update of Kīlauea Volcano - June 14, 2018
USGS Hawaiian Volcan Observatory, Status of Kīlauea Volcano, June 14, 2018, Jessica Ball, USGS Volcanologist.
Kīlauea Volcano — Fissure 8 Flow: From Vent to Sea
A helicopter overflight video of the lower East Rift Zone on June 14, 2018, around 6:00 AM, shows lava
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On Friday, February 12, at 9:23 a.m., HST, a magnitude-4.1 earthquake occurred beneath Kīlauea Volcano's south flank.
The U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) recorded a magnitude-4.1 earthquakelocated beneath Kīlauea Volcano's south flank on Friday, February 12, 2016, at 9:23 a.m., HST. According to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, there is no tsunami threat from this earthquake.
In recent weeks, the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) has received a number of calls from local residents saying essentially: "Hey, is something up with Kīlauea's eruptions? The plumes at Halema‘uma‘u and Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō seem to be enormous lately."
In 1880–1881, a lava flow from Mauna Loa came very close to entering Hilo Bay.
As the 2016 Volcano Awareness Month comes to an end, so too does our series of "Volcano Watch" articles exploring the geology of the Hawaiian Islands. This week, we conclude our journey with the Island of Hawai‘i.
As part of Volcano Awareness Month, our January "Volcano Watch" articles are taking us on a geologic tour of the Hawaiian Islands. Today's stop: Maui, as well as the islands of Lāna‘i, Moloka‘i, and Kaho‘olawe, all of which form Maui County.
January is Volcano Awareness Month, during which our "Volcano Watch" articles are exploring the geology of the Hawaiian Islands. The series continues this week with a look at O‘ahu.
New evidence for frequent large tsunamis at a remote island near Dutch Harbor, Alaska provides geological data to aid tsunami hazard preparedness efforts around the Pacific Rim.
Welcome to the 7th annual Volcano Awareness Month on the Island of Hawai‘i!
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Several small collapses as summit lava lake slowly drops
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — A new study shows that the combined effect of storm-induced wave-driven flooding and sea level rise on island atolls may be more severe and happen sooner than previous estimates of inundation predicted by passive “bathtub” modeling for low-lying atoll islands, and especially at higher sea levels forecasted for the future due to climate change.
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