Kilauea erupting at Halema’uma’u Crater in Hawaii Volcanoes Nationwide Park

Following elevated earthquake exercise, Kilauea started erupting at about 2:30 a.m. This new eruption is occurring at Halema’uma’u crater, which is positioned on the summit of Kilauea within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. It isn’t posing a hazard to any houses or companies.

From the early photos, it seems that a this can be a fissure eruption with fountains of lava spewing from the fissure. It’s troublesome to discern the precise top and scale of the fountains from a distant view. America Geological Survey (USGS) will doubtless present an estimate later right this moment. If I needed to guess, I’d estimate that the fountains you see within the picture above are reaching heights of roughly 30 ft and potential extra. You possibly can test for Kilauea updates from the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.

Any such eruption is often very dramatic, particularly to start with of the brand new volcano exercise. The next screenshot was taken from the identical vantage level roughly 42 minutes from the picture on the prime. You possibly can see how a lot lava coated the crater flooring in a brief time frame.

Inside just a few hours of the eruption, the livestream webcam was moved to a distinct location and wow, oh, wow! What an unbelievable sight as you may see from the next screenshot!

You possibly can watch the livestream of this eruption on the USGS’ YouTube channel. If in any respect potential, attempt to test in on the livestream round daybreak and/or nightfall when the views are greatest. Generally the livestream will get interrupted and that has occurred this morning. When the livestream will get restarted, we believe this will be the link.

Right here’s another webcam view of Halema’uma’u. It’s neat to see how the lava is illuminating the crater wall in the course of the darkish evening.

What an thrilling 24 hours it’s been for Hawaii. Yesterday, Oahu’s North Shore had the monster waves rolling in for The Eddie browsing competitors. Now, Kilauea is erupting. Wow!