Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupts, shooting jets of lava into the sky

Lava continues to spew from 1 of the world’s astir progressive volcanoes, days aft the eruption of Kilauea connected Hawaii’s Big Island began.

The eruption, which began connected Monday, has stayed wrong the mountain’s acme caldera wrong Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

Live images broadcast online by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) showed a burst of lava spewing from the Halema’uma’u crater, connected the northwest rim of the caldera, aboriginal connected Wednesday.

The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said the eruption began conscionable aft 2:00am section clip (12:00 GMT) connected Monday.

“At 4:30am [14:30 GMT], lava fountains were observed with heights up to 80 meters [262 feet],” the bureau said.

“Molten material, including lava bombs, is being ejected from the vents connected the caldera level up onto the westbound caldera rim.”

The eruption occurred successful an country that has been closed to the nationalist since 2007 owed to hazards including crater partition instability and rockfalls. Visitors to the parkland were capable to ticker the foundations astatine a region from an place spot.

This week’s eruption is the sixth successful Kilauea’s summit caldera since 2020.

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park encompasses the summits of 2 of the world’s astir progressive volcanoes: Kilauea and Mauna Loa. Kilauea besides erupted successful June and September.