Kilauea volcano erupted on Hawaii's Big Island and is once again shooting lava plumes; this time, some are over 330 feet high. No residential areas have been threatened by lava. Kilauea, one of ...

HPR contributor Betsy Brown spoke with a USGS geologist during the last eruptive episode to find out what’s causing this eruptive pattern and how it’s changing the landscape inside the crater and beyond.

The latest eruption from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano shot lava 1,200 feet high into the sky and went on for 9 hours. But it was something else, happening in the distance, that’s getting a lot of the attention.

In a fiery display, Kilauea volcano, on Hawaii's Big Island, spewed a gigantic fountain of lava roughly 330 feet (100 meters) — the height of a small skyscraper, on Tuesday (Feb. 11), according ...

Crowds of people flocked to the Big Island's Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, which offered safe views of the lava. Kilauea, Hawaii's second-largest volcano, erupted from September 2021 until last ...

A rising lava lake is seen within Halema'uma'u crater during the eruption of Kilauea volcano in Hawaii National Park, Sept. 29, 2021.

In this photo provided by the National Park Service, people watch as an eruption takes place on the summit of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024.

Before that eruption, the volcano had been slowly erupting for decades, but mostly not in densely populated areas. Before 2018, Kilauea had been erupting since 1983 and streams of lava ...

Kilauea is spewing lava again. It is the Hawaii volcano’s latest activity in an on-and-off eruption This is the ninth episode of eruptive activity since Dec. 23.

Video shows geologists collecting lava samples during Hawaii's Kilauea volcano eruption The eruption began on Sunday night and lasted for an hour before starting to erupt again on Monday night.

The last time Kilauea erupted at the southern part of its caldera, or crater, was in 1974. World & Nation Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano continues to erupt amid earthquakes.

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory field engineers on July 10, 2025, visited monitoring stations downwind of the Kīlauea summit eruptive vents. They wore snowshoes, as the large footprint keeps the field engineers walking on top of the frothy pumice everywhere instead of sinking through it. (Photo Courtesy: US Geological Survey/M.Warren)