The episodic summit eruption of Kīlauea in Halemaʻumaʻu Crater has been going on for more than 3 months now, with 16 eruptive ...

9:17 a.m. update April 17: Lava fountaining is anticipated to begin as Kīlauea entered its 18th eruptive episode late Wednesday.

The beach at Pohoiki grew rapidly in the year following the 2018 lower East Rift Zone eruption of Kīlauea and has continued ...

Imagine standing at the rim of a vast caldera, the earth beneath your feet formed by unimaginable forces millions of years ...

During a monitoring overflight on April 9, 2025, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory field crews observed that the ponded lava in the north vent from April 8 had drained and/or collapsed. The south vent ...

“Hawaiian lava flows generally advance slowly downslope, and during this eruption flows have been confined to Halemaʻumaʻu crater and the southwest side of Kaluapele, Kīlauea’s summit ...

The episodic summit eruption of Kīlauea in Halemaʻumaʻu crater has been going on for over three months now, with 16 eruptive episodes displaying lava fountains and lava flows within Kaluapele (the ...

When the Kīlauea Volcano erupted in May 2018, an enormous amount of ash was released into the atmosphere in a plume nearly five miles high. A new study by an international team of researchers ...

Satellite data shows deposition of ash from the Kīlauea eruption (top, dark brown) occurred in the same area where a massive phytoplankton bloom (bottom, light blue) formed. When the Kīlauea ...