Kīlauea’s summit continues to captivate as geologists from the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory conducted an overflight on the morning of December 27, 2024, to assess the ongoing eruption within ...

It then reactivated at several vents along the southwest of Halemaumau Crater. Eruptive activity remains confined to the crater, USGS officials said. After a three-month pause, Kilauea began ...

By 5:30 a.m. a lake of lava covered about 500 acres of the caldera floor, and lava fountains in the southwest ... to Halemaumau and the eastern part of the summit caldera. The crater area has ...