Episode 8 breaks into activity in Kīlauea Caldera after a 6-day break: Big Island now

Episode 8 breaks into activity in Kīlauea Caldera after a 6-day break: Big Island now

Webcam view from 9:35 a.m. Tuesday, February 4, 2025, by Halemaʻuma’u crater at the summit of the Kīlauea volcano on the Big Island. The camera is located on the South Rand and the view in the west. (US Geological Survey S2Cam)

This story was updated at 12:07 p.m. with updated information from the daily Kīlauea -update of the Hawaiian Vulcano Observatory.

Kīlauea volcano on the Big Island roared in eruptiv activity after a 6-day break, with lava foseles within the first hour of the latest eruptive activity within Kaluapele, the Volco-Summit, more than 250 feet high was caldera .

Episode 8 of the continuing outbreak in the southwestern part of the Halema’uma’u crater started on Monday at 9:52 p.m. and continued on Tuesday morning, albeit in somewhat reduced heights of live stream images.

Lava continued to flow onto the crater floor.

The Hawaiian Vulcano Observatory reported on February 4 at 11:19 a.m. that strong fountain from the north and south loop fed lava flows onto the crater soil.

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In the first few hours of episode 8, Lava fountain reached a maximum height of up to 330 feet at the North ventilation. The northern ventilation has been the most active since the beginning of the erution on December 23, 2024.

Animation from February 3 to February 4, 2025, about the Halema’uma’u crater on the summit of the Kīlaua volcano on the Big Island. The camera is located on the South Rand and the view in the west. (US Geological Survey S2Cam)

In this new episode, small, sporadic spray fountain preceded that began on the evening of February 2.

The intensity of the sprinkle fountain increased on Monday afternoon, accompanied by an increase in the seismic tremor and a change from inflation to deflation on the volcanic summit. Sustainable was in progress until 9:52 p.m.

Fountain grew up to more than 250 feet until 10:50 p.m. and fed several lava apples.

An estimated 70 to 160 foot in the north and 80 to 115 feet at the South Vent were observed from 9:20 a.m. on Tuesday at 9:20 a.m.

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Until then, the active lava flows had about 15% to 20% of the crater floor. When the Hawaiian Vulcano Observatory published its notification over the beginning of the new Eruptive episode.

The LAVA flows had covered about half of the crater soil from almost noon.

Deflationary Tilt on the summit continued on Tuesday almost 11:30 a.m. The seismic tremor remained increased.

The outbreak occurs.

Webcam view of Kīlauea Caldera from 9:39 a.m. Tuesday, February 4, 2025, from Northwest Rim. (US Geological Survey V1Cam)

Since sulfur dioxide is continuously released from the summit, it reacts in the atmosphere in order to create the visible haze, which is known as the Vog or Vulkanmog, which corresponds to the wind of Kīlauaa.

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The Hawaiian Vulcano Observatory reported that sulfur dioxide emission rates were estimated at 10,000 tons per day or more on Tuesday morning.

Additional dangers are peles hair and other volcanic fragments made of lava -nonunties that can fall against the wind from the eruptive slots.

Kīlaua’s Vulkan alarm level remains at Watch and his aviation color code at Orange.

Every episode of lava fountaining during the sixth summit of the volcano has been at least 13 hours and up to 8 days since 2020. They were separated by breaks from less than 24 hours to 12 days.

No changes were found in the East Rift Zone or the Southwest Rift Zone.

This eruption has been unique in recent years at the Kīlauea summit, which is characterized by episodic fountain, which has not been seen in any of the other Halemaʻuma’u eruptions since 2020.

Screenshot of the outbreak of timeline for the Kīlauea summit outbreak, which began on December 23, 2025 (from the website of the Hawaiian volcanic observatory in Kīlauea generation information)

Each episode was accompanied by a strong deflation of the summit region, whereby the breaks are charged and suppresses as a magma chamber of the volcano by an immediate change from deflation.

The Uēkahuna -Filtmeter had recorded by 13 microradiers since the beginning of Episode 8 until Tuesday on Tuesday.

The Hawaiian volcanic observatory continues to monitor Kīlaua.

(Tagstotranslate) 6-day flows

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