The most recent Kilauea eruption is the sizzling information in Hawaii proper now. This eruption is a renewed lava lake inside Halema’uma’u crater. Per the remarks within the January sixth Kilauea update, lava has inundated a lot of the crater ground which is sort of 300 acres or 120 hectares. Wow, that’s plenty of house of an energetic lava lake! The brand new depth of lava added onto of the earlier crater ground is estimated to be over 30 toes or 9 meters.
The USGS created a live stream video to watch the activity in Halema’uma’u crater. On the time of publishing on the morning of January seventh, a number of lava fountains are energetic. Additionally, as we watched the reside stream video, we seen how the crater ground is slowly transferring in sloshing movement.
This new eruption at Halema’uma’u is positioned at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and may be observed from a distance.
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