{"id":11856,"date":"2025-06-20T19:36:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T19:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=11856"},"modified":"2025-06-20T19:36:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T19:36:26","slug":"eruption-at-hawaiis-kilauea-volcano-sends-lava-shooting-1000-feet-in-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=11856","title":{"rendered":"Eruption at Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano sends lava shooting 1,000 feet in air"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano is erupting again in spectacular fashion, sending lava shooting 1,000 feet into the sky, according to the United States Geological Survey.<\/p>\n

On Friday morning, “Episode 26” of the ongoing eruption at Halema\u02bbuma\u02bbu — the pit crater within K\u012blauea Caldera at the summit of the volcano — spewed lava fountains that reached massive heights, according to the USGS’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Episode 26 was preceded by small, sporadic spattering and lava overflows, according to the USGS.<\/p>\n

Kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes in the world and located on the Big Island, has been especially active in the last several months, erupting dozens of times since December.<\/p>\n

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The south Halema\u02bbuma\u02bbu crater of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii is shown on June 20, 2025.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

USGS Volcanoes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In May, Kilauea also spewed leva more than 1,000 feet. On June 11, eruptions at Kilauea measured at more than 330 feet, according to the USGS.<\/p>\n

The current eruption began at 1:40 a.m. local time, with lava fountains and flows erupting from the north vent, according to the USGS.<\/p>\n

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Lava fountaining in the ongoing Halema\u02bbuma\u02bbu eruption at K\u012blauea, Hawai’i, began at about 1:40 a.m. on June 20, 2025.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

USGS Volcanoes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The eruption is flowing into a remote area of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Flows have been confined to the Halema\u02bbuma\u02bbu crater and the southwest side of Kaluapele, K\u012blauea’s summit caldera.<\/p>\n

The USGS issued a volcano watch<\/a> \u2013 known as a code orange \u2013 which means that an eruption is either likely or occurring but with no, or minor, ash.<\/p>\n

Volcanic gas emissions and tephra — fragments of rock, minerals and glass — from the lava fountain may be distributed south of the caldera, due to the winds blowing from the north, the USGS said.<\/p>\n

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Lava fountaining in the ongoing Halema\u02bbuma\u02bbu eruption at K\u012blauea, Hawai’i, began at about 1:40 a.m. on June 20, 2025.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Other hazards include Pele’s hair — strands of volcanic glass often produced by lava fountaining activity — crater wall instability, ground cracking and rockfalls.<\/p>\n

K\u012blauea’s\u202fcaldera rim surrounding\u202fHalema\u02bbuma\u02bbu\u202fcrater has been closed to the public since 2007 due to such hazards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano is erupting again in spectacular fashion, sending lava shooting 1,000 feet into the sky, according to the United States Geological Survey. On Friday morning, “Episode 26” of the ongoing eruption at Halema\u02bbuma\u02bbu — the pit crater within K\u012blauea Caldera at the summit of the volcano — spewed lava fountains that reached massive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11858,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856\/revisions\/11858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}