New Volcanic Eruption at Kilauea, Hawaii

March 26, 2025 8:04 PM

Live view of the eruption in Halemaʻumaʻu, from the northwest rim of the caldera, looking east [V1cam]

[V2cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (east Halemaʻumaʻu crater) Episode 15 of Kīlauea eruption biggest yet with lava fountains more than 700 feet tall

posted by NoMich (14 comments total)

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posted by rrrrrrrrrt at 8:38 PM on March 26 [1 favorite]

wow.
Pretty amazing...this beautiful old earth just keeps doing its thing. Very reassuring.
And awesome!!!
posted by pt68 at 8:41 PM on March 26 [3 favorites]

It's amazing to watch this in real time!
posted by supermedusa at 8:41 PM on March 26 [1 favorite]

How INCREDIBLY beautiful, and also incredibly terrifying. The inside of our planet!!!!
posted by rrrrrrrrrt at 8:48 PM on March 26 [1 favorite]

Saw this in person but nowhere near this scale. Still am absolute bucket list check mark. Really just incredibly beautiful and awe inspiring.
posted by Smedly, Butlerian jihadi at 9:00 PM on March 26 [1 favorite]

I'm just trying to think of the appropriate soundtrack.
posted by clavdivs at 10:06 PM on March 26

This is very cool, although it's kind of hard to get an idea of scale here. I imagine this is pretty big, but I have no reference at all.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 10:21 PM on March 26

Looks like the geysers of lava are done for for now, but they were going steady for most of today. For a bit of context on the scale here, the tallest building in Hawaii is 435 feet tall, so a 700-foot spout of lava would absolutely dwarf that.
posted by flod at 11:38 PM on March 26

Joakim Ziegler, the caldera that you can see the lava plume emerging from is about 300ft deep and 2 miles across. That lava plunge is huge.
posted by Smedly, Butlerian jihadi at 4:16 AM on March 27 [2 favorites]

I had the amazing experience of seeing the eruption in January; there was a cool double-plume thing going then. I think we were standing about a mile away, but it was still spectacular. And a pair of binocs made it even better.
posted by kaibutsu at 9:24 AM on March 27

Updated V2 camera streaming link as the one in the FPP seems to be not working anymore.

[V2cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (east Halemaʻumaʻu crater)
posted by NoMich at 12:12 PM on March 27 [1 favorite]

Yeah, toward the end of the day, the fog rolled in and obstructed the view, and then (just as my family was leaving) the eruption died down.

There were tumbleweeds of Pele's Hair and grit on everything.

There have been off and on eruptions for the past few weeks/months/what is time?
posted by DebetEsse at 3:51 PM on March 27 [1 favorite]

Mod note: So beautiful to see and there's no Gollum, so we've added this thread to the sidebar and Best Of blog!
posted by Brandon Blatcher (staff) at 2:54 AM on March 28 [2 favorites]

OP attempted to update this in MeTa and was redirected to update here. However: the V2 cam in the post here is unavailable and OP's MeTa post included a V2 cam that seemed to work. Could a mod please fix the link so that the working V2 cam from the closed MeTa post replaces the nonworking V2 cam in this post here ^^^ please?
posted by toodleydoodley at 1:04 PM on April 2