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The 2018 lower Puna eruption was a volcanic event on the island of Hawaiʻi, on Kīlauea volcano's East Rift Zone that began on May 3, 2018. It is related to the larger eruption of Kīlauea that began on January 3, 1983, though some volcanologists and USGS scientists have discussed whether to classify it as a new eruption. [ 2 ]
Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, began erupting around 2:30 a.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The world’s most active volcano is at it again after Hawaii’s Kilauea began its seventh episode of its ongoing eruption, with video showing lava shooting more than 100 feet into the air.
The eruption is in Halemaʻumaʻu crater in Kilauea's⠯summit caldera at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park on Hawaii's Big Island. Kīlauea makes up the southeastern side of the Big Island ...
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano roared back to life and resumed its eruption Wednesday as dramatic video provided by the U.S. Geological Survey showed lava shooting hundreds of feet into the air.
Kīlauea's eruption from January 3, 1983, to 2018 was by far its longest-duration period of activity in modern times, as well as one of the longest-duration eruptions documented on Earth; as of January 2011, the eruption had produced 3.5 km 3 (1 cu mi) of lava and resurfaced 123.2 km 2 (48 sq mi) of land.
These eruptions have taken place from pit craters and the main caldera, as well as parasitic cones and fissures along the East and Southwest rift zones. They are generally fluid ( VEI -0) Hawaiian eruptions , but more violent eruptions have occurred throughout Kīlauea's eruptive history, with the largest recorded explosive eruption having ...
Another view of the new eruption within the summit caldera of Kīlauea Volcano that began on Dec. 23, 2024. Lava is erupting from vents on the west part of the caldera wall, feeding lava flows ...