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This is a list of volcanic eruptions from Kīlauea, an active shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands that is currently erupting. These eruptions have taken place from pit craters and the main caldera, as well as parasitic cones and fissures along the East and Southwest rift zones. They are generally fluid (VEI -0) Hawaiian eruptions, but more ...
Last eruption. September 15–20, 2024. Kīlauea (US: / ˌkɪləˈweɪə / KIL-ə-WAY-ə, Hawaiian: [kiːlɐwˈwɛjə]) is an active shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands. It is located along the southeastern shore of Hawaii Island. The volcano is between 210,000 and 280,000 years old and grew above sea level about 100,000 years ago.
The eruption, which began about 6 p.m., is occurring within a closed and remote area of Hawai ʻi Volcanoes National Park. Hawaiian Volcano Observatory officials said the volcano alert level for ...
Kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, began erupting early Monday in a remote area that last erupted a half-century ago, the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory ...
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupted to life early Monday morning with lava oozing out of the ground and causing the sky to glow eerily orange. The eruption began around 12:30 a.m. HST on Monday, June ...
2008 Map of Kīlauea Caldera with Halemaʻumaʻu lower left. Halemaʻumaʻu (six syllables: HAH-lay-MAH-oo-MAH-oo) is a pit crater within the much larger Kīlauea Caldera at the summit of Kīlauea volcano on island of Hawaiʻi. The roughly circular crater was 770 meters (2,530 ft) x 900 m (2,950 ft) before collapses that roughly doubled the ...
Kilauea Volcano began erupting at about 12:30 a.m. today about a mile south of Kilauea caldera. This view shows the glow of the new eruption under the Milky Way. 6/6
Kīlauea, was in near-continuous eruption on its East Rift Zone from January 3, 1983 to September 4, 2018, making it the longest-lived rift-zone eruption of the last six centuries. [13] Mauna Loa. Big Island. 2022-ongoing (active)[14] 19°28′46″N 155°36′10″W / 19.47944°N 155.60278°W / 19.47944; -155.60278.