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Volcano Watch: Kilauea activity update for August 27, 2015


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Time-lapse thermal image movie of Halemaumau Overlook Vent. August 20-27, 2015. Images courtesy of USGS/HVO


Time-lapse movie of Halemaumau Overlook Vent. August 20-27, 2015. Images courtesy of USGS/HVO


Time-lapse movie of Halemaumau Overlook Vent from the West Rim of Halemaumau Crater. August 20-27, 2015. Images courtesy of USGS/HVO


Time-lapse movie of Halemaumau Crater from the south rim. August 20-27, 2015. Images courtesy of USGS/HVO


Time-lapse movie of Halemaʻumaʻu Overlook Vent from Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. August 20-27, 2015. Images courtesy of USGS/HVO


Time-lapse movie of KÄ«lauea Caldera from Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. August 20-27, 2015. Images courtesy of USGS/HVO


Time-lapse movie of Halemaumau Crater looking Southwest. August 20-27, 2015. Images courtesy of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

(Activity updates are written by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.)

KÄ«lauea’s summit lava lake level, which fluctuates in response to summit inflation and deflation, varied this past week between about 45 and 58 m (148–190 ft) below the vent rim within Halema‘uma‘u Crater.

KÄ«lauea’s East Rift Zone lava continues to feed widespread breakouts northeast and east of PuÊ»u ʻŌʻō. All active lava remains within about 8 km (5 mi) of PuÊ»u ʻŌʻō. The most distant breakouts are evident by the smoke plumes produced by burning vegetation along the edge of the flow field.

One earthquake was reported felt on the Island of Hawai‘i in the past week. On Thursday, August 27, 2015, at 4:39 a.m., HST, a magnitude-3.9 earthquake occurred 14.3 km (8.9 mi) south of Volcano at depth of 9.4 km (5.8 mi).

Please visit the HVO website (http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov) for past Volcano Watch articles, KÄ«lauea daily eruption updates and other volcano status reports, current volcano photos, recent earthquakes, and more; call (808) 967-8862 for a KÄ«lauea summary update; email questions to askHVO@usgs.gov


Time-lapse movie from images gathered from a temporary thermal camera looking into Pu’u ‘O’o Crater. The temperature scale is in degrees Celsius up to a maximum of 500 Celsius (932 Fahrenheit) for this camera model, and scales based on the maximum and minimum temperatures within the frame. Thick fume, image pixel size and other factors often result in image temperatures being lower than actual surface temperatures. August 20-27, 2015. Images courtesy of USGS/HVO


Time-lapse movie of Pu’u ‘O’o Crater North Flank from the North Rim. August 20-27, 2015. Images courtesy of USGS/HVO


Time-lapse multi-image movie of Pu’u ‘O’o Crater. August 20-27, 2015. Images courtesy of USGS/HVO


Time-lapse multi-image movie of Mokuʻāweoweo Caldera from the Northwest Rim on Mauna Loa. August 20-27, 2015. Images courtesy of USGS/HVO

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