One of the most active volcanoes on Earth, Kīlauea is the youngest volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island and a central feature of Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park.
HAWAIIAN VOLCANO OBSERVATORY, Hawaii – Hawaii‘s Kilauea volcano has resumed its eruption with dramatic video from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) showing lava shooting hundreds of feet into the air.
Officials said the eruption of Kilauea within Kaluapele (summit caldera) resumed Wednesday morning with a small lava flow coming from the north vent. Less than an hour later, the lava intensified.
This lava flow marked the start of the fourth episode of the ongoing summit eruption.
A lava fountain was spotted just before 10 a.m. local time on Wednesday, with new lava covering about 10% of the floor of Halema’uma’u.
The USGS said that based on video images, the lava fountain appeared to be about 200 feet high.
“The sluggish, low effusion rate eruptive activity at the start of the fourth eruptive episode was shorter than the sluggish start of the second (3-4 hours) and third (2.5 days) eruptive episodes,” officials said in an update. “There are no signs of activity at the south vent.”
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