Officials said the "dynamic" volcanic activity is currently confined to the summit caldera. Webcam imagery showed lava fountains as high as 262 feet with molten material, including lava bombs ...
According to a news release shared by the USGS on their social media channels, an eruption has commenced within Kaluapele— the summit caldera of Kīlauea volcano. The USGS Hawaiian Volcano ...
Ferracane said if he had gone over the edge, it would have been a certainly fatal, 400-foot fall into Kaluapele, the volcano’s summit caldera, and “a horrible way to remember Christmas.” ...
The eruption of Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island has stayed within the mountain’s summit caldera inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. No homes were threatened. Molten rock began ...
No homes were threatened. Molten rock began shooting from the volcano before dawn on Monday when fissures opened in the caldera floor and propelled lava 295 feet (90 meters) into the air.
Images showed enormous fissures in the caldera of Kilauea, on Hawaii’s Big Island, spraying jets of molten rock into the air. The US Geological Service (USGS) Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said ...