"HAWAIʻI VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK - An incredible sight at the summit of Kilauea volcano on Saturday morning, as Episode 38 erupted enormous lava fountains across the caldera, destroying one of the webcams that was live streaming the event. All images and video are courtesy the U.S. Geological Survey. A synthesized text-to-video voiceover was used in the narration for this story" Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK2N99BDw7A | Earth Sciences

We know you've heard of a volcano...but how about a volnado? This afternoon, during episode 32 lava fountaining at Kīlauea, in Hawaii, the V3 live camera (https://ow.ly/QTir50WPZKu) caught this whirlwind kicking up loose ash and spatter deposits along the active lava fountain and flow within Halemaʻumaʻu crater. These whirlwinds, which can also occur on the crater rim downwind of the eruption (within the closed area of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park), have been documented during several eruptiv

From coverage to clean up, eruption to restoration🌋 Episode 41 of the Kīlauea summit eruption sent tephra raining down on Uēkahuna overlook in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. By the next morning, park staff had cleared the fallout. What's tephra? It's what you call any material that erupted by a volcano and traveled through the air before landing on the ground. During lava fountaining episodes at the summit of Kīlauea, tephra ranges in sizes from volcanic ash to Pele's hair (strands of volcani

Good morning, and welcome to the newest eruption of Kīlauea! This morning, December 23, at approximately 2 a.m. HST, elevated earthquake activity began at the volcano's summit. By 2:30 a.m., the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory observed eruptive activity in Kīlauea summit webcam images, indicating that an eruption has commenced within Halemaʻumaʻu and the summit caldera in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park. The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory is elevating Kīlauea’s volcano alert level from ADVI