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Kilauea Volcano is spectacular today.
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I left about 100 minutes ago just before it went nuts.
Here is the still from ~20 minutes ago:
Have you seen the time lapse of the episode from last week? (Today's does look a touch higher.)
Photo & Video Chronology — March 21, 2025 — Observing the effects of episode 14, Kīlauea summit eruption
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It's at it again today. Fountains to 300 m.
It will probably last for 8-12 hours total (last 12 hours is accessible in rewind of video stream).
It will probably last for 8-12 hours total (last 12 hours is accessible in rewind of video stream).
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Fountains are still going, but less than 100 m high. 12 hours of look back time is visibile in the video I posted yesterday, something similar for the other one. Here is a page of photos (and a helicopter video) from yesterday.
Photo & Video Chronology — April 1, 2025 — Kīlauea summit eruption episode 16
Here is one of the images from a flyover. The tall fountain on the left is the "south vent" that has made all of the big fountains. The north vent is adjacent with a small spattering inside the raised lava pool just to the right. The "shield" structure the vents have built up during this eruption relative to the crater floor is fairly evident in this shot. It is about 1/3 in height of the depth of the crater at this location. (The crater is about 150-200 m deep here.)
Photo & Video Chronology — April 1, 2025 — Kīlauea summit eruption episode 16
Here is one of the images from a flyover. The tall fountain on the left is the "south vent" that has made all of the big fountains. The north vent is adjacent with a small spattering inside the raised lava pool just to the right. The "shield" structure the vents have built up during this eruption relative to the crater floor is fairly evident in this shot. It is about 1/3 in height of the depth of the crater at this location. (The crater is about 150-200 m deep here.)
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Its such an impressive 'other worldly' place.
I was fortunate to visit it some years ago .. before the eastward fissure 8 events near Leilani in 2018.
That visit was well before what was called the Jaggar Museum at Kilauea was relocated .. and now seems to be called 'The Kīlauea Visitor Center (KVC)'. On a clear night one can easily spot satellites passing overhead amongst the myriad of stars, with the naked eye .. a really stunning experience in the midst of the active volcano site only a couple of hundred yards away.
Its a very special place (speaking emotionally here). I'll remember it until my own demise and it'll just keep goin' on .. doin' what it does ...
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I was fortunate to visit it some years ago .. before the eastward fissure 8 events near Leilani in 2018.
That visit was well before what was called the Jaggar Museum at Kilauea was relocated .. and now seems to be called 'The Kīlauea Visitor Center (KVC)'. On a clear night one can easily spot satellites passing overhead amongst the myriad of stars, with the naked eye .. a really stunning experience in the midst of the active volcano site only a couple of hundred yards away.
Its a very special place (speaking emotionally here). I'll remember it until my own demise and it'll just keep goin' on .. doin' what it does ...
Cheers
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The Jaggar Museum and the building it shared with the volcano observatory were badly damaged in the 2018 collapse of the caldera that made the pit the current eruption is in. I believe one of the cameras is located in the observing tower still.
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Yeah it was a pretty large concrete building, IIRC(?) I remember all those seismographs and gas emission sensing gear in it too.
Its a little disturbing to think how naive I was in feeling safe whilst roaming around in it, at the time. I also remember the temperature and cracks under foot, whilst doing some rock-hopping within the vicinity.
We mounted an attempted break through of the barricade blocking the road leading to the Mauna Kea observatory too, all to no avail. I didn't realise just how high that volcano really is until we attempted this. One notices the altitude even when driving a car up it.
I also had a good chuckle at the Bear Grylls Man vs Wild episode filmed in the area after I got back home too.
PS: I got the names all wrong .. I mean the Mauna Kea (road) .. not Mauna Loa .. Still both pretty high for us sea level dwellers though.
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Episode 16 was spectacular, but Episode 17 has just begun. It is still in the preliminary stage, but it might start high fountaining in a few hours, or perhaps a full day (hard to tell). The link I posted is still viable with a live shot.
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It has been teasing us for a while. The USGS declared the start of Episode 18 with about an hour of overflows on Wednesday night (April 16th) then it rested for 3 days and had a few more overflows on Sunday morning, and the rested and a couple yesterday, but...
Overnight it came back to its full high-fountain glory with lava shooting above the caldera rim again. The USGS video stream in post #5 is still active (activity starts about 2 hours ago).
Here is the other live feed from USGS:
and a 5 AM shot of the fountains going above the edge:
Taken from the changing stills page at:
Summit Webcams
Overnight it came back to its full high-fountain glory with lava shooting above the caldera rim again. The USGS video stream in post #5 is still active (activity starts about 2 hours ago).
Here is the other live feed from USGS:
and a 5 AM shot of the fountains going above the edge:
Taken from the changing stills page at:
Summit Webcams
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It's warming up for Episode 19 now. It's been producing visible spatter on the stream in #5 for most of the last 12 hours. As a rare bonus, there has also been "flaming" -- a rare phenomenon when the gas-rich output contains enough hydrogen to burn it. (Lava flows over vegetation sometimes produces methane that will create nice blue flames, but there hasn't been vegetation at this spot in a very long time.
Here's a shot from yesterday near sunset showing the spatter in the vents. The full eruption may start in a few hours or days.
Here's a shot from yesterday near sunset showing the spatter in the vents. The full eruption may start in a few hours or days.
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A nice warm-up phase. It started around sunset last night. afarTV does nice volcanocasting and are the best place for viewing the Reykjanes volcanic system when it goes off next (June?), but their streams reset with each new eruptive episode (I suspect YouTube has limits.) and they are the same as the USGS feeds that are continuous.
The last episode kept things modestly high 30m or so and only from the North vent. Nothing at all from the South vent that has made all of the spectacular fountains above the crater rim. Hopefully episode 20 will put on a more spectacular show.
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Thanks for the afarTV suggestion. It's a new to me site and looks interesting. Again thanks!
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Episode 21 is starting now (see video links in post #5 and #12)
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The preliminary stages of Episode 22 (spattering and a small overflow) seems to have happened overnight, fountaining could start in hours or perhaps a day or so.
But first, a shot from May 11 of the last episode showing a kilometer-long flow on the floor of the Halema'uma'u crater...
For more images from that episode, including a few shots showing the tephra (that loose "gravel" in the foreground) build-up see:
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But first, a shot from May 11 of the last episode showing a kilometer-long flow on the floor of the Halema'uma'u crater...
For more images from that episode, including a few shots showing the tephra (that loose "gravel" in the foreground) build-up see:
Photo & Video Chronology — May 11, 2025 — Kīlauea summit eruption episode 21
Episode 21 of the ongoing eruption in Halemaʻumaʻu at the summit of Kīlauea began at 12:45 p.m. on Sunday, May 1, 2025. Lava fountains reached heights of approximately 500 feet (150 meters) in the early hours of this episode.
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The fountaining phase has already started. See the streams in #5 and #12 for a live view.The preliminary stages of Episode 22 (spattering and a small overflow) seems to have happened overnight, fountaining could start in hours or perhaps a day or so.
But first, a shot from May 11 of the last episode showing a kilometer-long flow on the floor of the Halema'uma'u crater...
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For more images from that episode, including a few shots showing the tephra (that loose "gravel" in the foreground) build-up see:
Photo & Video Chronology — May 11, 2025 — Kīlauea summit eruption episode 21
Episode 21 of the ongoing eruption in Halemaʻumaʻu at the summit of Kīlauea began at 12:45 p.m. on Sunday, May 1, 2025. Lava fountains reached heights of approximately 500 feet (150 meters) in the early hours of this episode.
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