Jun. 3—1/6 Swipe or click to see more COURTESY USGS An aerial image of the Southwest Rift Zone eruption of Kīlauea, viewed during an overflight at approximately 6 a.m. today. 2/6 Swipe or click to see more COURTESY VOLCANO HOUSE Kilauea Volcano began erupting at about 12:30 a.m. today about a mile south of Kilauea […]
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Kilauea eruption prompts red alert on Hawaii’s Big Island
Kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, has begun to erupt again, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Lava began to emerge from the summit of the famed volcano, located at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island, around 12:30 a.m. local time, prompting the USGS to raise the alert level […]
Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano erupts in a remote area, causes no disruption
Kīlauea greeted Monday’s early morning darkness with a slow-bubbling eruption that, so far, has posed no threat to communities on the Big Island of Hawaii, officials said. The volcano, Hawaii’s second largest next to neighbor Mauna Loa, started erupting through four scratch-like fissures about 12:30 a.m. in an area 2.5 miles southwest of its caldera, […]
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupts in region that hasn’t seen eruption since 1974
HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK – Officials have started to lower alert levels within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park after the Kīlauea volcano began to erupt early Monday morning in an area that hasn’t seen an eruption in nearly 50 years. According to an alert from the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO), the Volcano Alert Level for […]
Kilauea, Hawaii’s second-largest volcano, is erupting again
Kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, began erupting early on Monday in an area that last erupted a half-century ago, the US Geological Survey’s (USGS) Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said. The eruption is about 1.6km south of the Kilauea caldera, in an area within Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park that last erupted in […]
Kilauea, Hawaii’s second-largest volcano, is erupting again
HONOLULU (AP) — Kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, began erupting early Monday in an area that last erupted a half-century ago, the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said. The eruption is about 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) south of the Kilauea caldera, in an area within Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park […]