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(Activity updates are written by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.) Lava continues to enter the lava tube system and is carried downslope to the Puhi-o-Kalaikini lava delta, near Kalapana, where it enters the ocean and creates a steam plume. The west edge of the delta collapsed into the ocean early on […]

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Eruption has produced more than 100 individual lava deltas ranging in size up to 100,000 square meters

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(Activity updates are written by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.) Lava continues to enter the lava tube system and is carried downslope to Puhi-o-Kalaikini lava delta, near Kalapana, where it enters the ocean and creates a large steam plume. Lava breakouts from the tube fed small surface flows that were active […]

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(Activity updates are written by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.) Lava continues to enter the lava tube system and is carried downslope to Puhi-o-Kalaikini, near Kalapana, where it enters the ocean and creates a large steam plume. Some of this lava was escaping from the tube to form small surface flows […]

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(Activity updates are written by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.) No breakouts on the flow field have been reported over the past week, as of this writing (Thursday, Sept. 2). Though repeated deflation–inflation cycles at Kilauea’s summit may have caused small fluctuations in the size of the steam plume at Puhi-o-Kalaikini, […]

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