Kīlauea in a sentence

Though Kīlauea is quiet on the surface, it can be easy to forget that Kīlauea is still deforming — which means magma is coming into the system — and that activity can change very quickly.

As SO is released from the summit, it will react in the atmosphere to create the visible haze known as vog (volcanic smog) that has been observed downwind of Kīlauea.

In the previous 24 hour reporting period, an earthquake swarm occurred at Kīlauea’s summit (20 earthquakes between 5 and 7am HST yesterday).

Kīlauea volcano on Hawai‘i Island is not erupting, although Hawaiian Volcano Observatory monitoring shows pulses of elevated rates of earthquake activity beneath the summit region.

Officials say all activity is confined to the Kīlauea summit region within the national park, and there are no indications of activity migrating into the rift zones.

Scientists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory have concluded that magma began to move from deeper depths beneath Kīlauea summit by mid-October 2020.

The earthquake was at at a depth of 4.8 miles below sea level and had no apparent impact on either Mauna Loa or Kīlauea volcanoes, according to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.

The massive changes that the 2018 eruption brought to the landscape and to Kīlauea, will continue to drive interesting science for years to come.

This article is about a deep study of subsurface conductivity beneath Kīlauea volcano that will reveal its subsurface magmatic plumbing.

This summer marks 200 years since that visit, and now is a good time to highlight the past two centuries of written records of Kīlauea’s summit activity.

According to Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, a significant amount of lava has been intruded south and southwest of Kīlauea caldera since Jan.

Future work includes bolstering webcam coverage on Kīlauea’s lower East Rift Zone, and continued improvements on Mauna Loa.

Many times, the volcanoes that have eruptions that last decades are ones like Kīlauea in Hawai'i, Yasur in Vanuatu or Erebus in Antarctica, where hot, runny basalt continuously erupts in lava lakes.

The Department of Public Works will give an update on the Kīlauea Recovery Road and Waterline Projects at 10:15 a.m. preceded by an opening with Mayor Mitch Roth.

The lava flow around a small island, south of the inlet zone, formed a heart-shaped outline in the western portion of the lava lake in Halema‘uma‘u at Kīlauea Volcano’s summit on Feb. 11, 2021.

Workers have fenced off 33 parking stalls east of Kīlauea Visitor Center as a staging area for the traffic safety project, creating less parking.

Fragments of these older lava flow deposits remain intact on the “down-dropped blocks” that formed within Kīlauea caldera during 2018.

Kīlauea monitoring data over the past month showed no significant changes in seismicity, sulfur dioxide emission rates, or deformation.

Last week’s “Volcano Watch” article described how the 2018 events impacted the magma plumbing system beneath the surface of Kīlauea’s summit.

Lava tends to come out of volcanoes like Hawaii’s Kīlauea at temperatures of 1,832 degrees Fahrenheit (1,000 degrees Celsius).