Honolulu – Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano resumed to erupt on Friday by firing a lava arc at 100 feet in the air and through a section of its Summit crater floor.
It was the 31st molten rock exhibition of Kilauea since December, an appropriately high frequency for one of the most active volcanoes in the world.
The north breathtakes in the crater of the summit began to splashed continuously in the morning, and then the lava overflowed a few hours later. The ventilation began shooting lava sources in the afternoon.
The eruption was contained in the crater of the summit, and houses were not threatened.
Some fortunate residents and visitors will have a front row view in the Hawaii volcanoes National Park. If the past is a guide, hundreds of thousands will see popular live dry ones made possible by three camera angles established by the United States geological service.
Every time I received the lava is back, the volunteer of the Janice Wei Park service haste to take photos and videos of the Halemaumau crater, which according to the native Hawaiian tradition is the home of the goddess Volcán Pelé. She said that when the molten rock shoots like a source, it sounds like a rugative reaction engine or ocean waves. She can feel her heat more than one mile away.
“Every eruption seems to be sitting in the front row in the most extraordinary show of nature,” Wei said in an email.
Kilauea is on the island of Hawaii, the largest in the Hawaiian archipelago. It is about 200 miles south of the largest city in the state, Honolulu, which is located in Oahu.
This is what Kilauea should know about the last eruption:
Molten Roca Sources
A lower magma chamber under the crater of Halemaumau is receiving magma directly from the interior of the earth to approximately 5 cubic yards (3.8 cubic meters) per second, said Ken Hon, a scientist in charge of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. This exploits the camera as a balloon and forces Magma to a upper camera. From there it pushes on the ground through cracks.
Magma has been using the same route to climb to the surface since December, causing the initial launch and subsequent episodes to be part of the same eruption, said Hon.
Many have presented washes that rises in the air, in some cases more than 1,000 feet. The sources are generated in part because the magma, which contains gases that are released as it increases, has been traveling to the surface through narrow and pipelines.
The expanding magma supply is crowned by a heavier magma that had expelled its gas at the end of the previous episode. Finally, enough new Magma accumulates to force the magma of weary magma, and the magma is triggered as a bottle of champagne that shook before the cork came out.
This is the fourth time in 200 years that Kilauea has triggered the sources of lava in the air in repeated episodes. There were more episodes the last time Kilauea followed this pattern: the eruption that began in 1983 began with 44 sessions of shooting sources. However, they extended for three years. And the sources arose in a remote area, very few had to look.
The other two occurred in 1959 and 1969.
Predict Kilauea’s future
Scientists do not know how the current eruption will end or how they can change. In 1983, Magma built enough pressure for Kilauea to open a ventilation to a lower elevation and began to continuously filter the lava from there instead of shooting periodically from a higher elevation. The eruption continued in several ways for three decades and ended in 2018.
Something similar could happen again. Or the current eruption could stop at the summit if its magma supplies the Peters.
Scientists can estimate a few days or even a week before time when the lava is likely to arise with the help of sensors around the volcano that detect earthquakes and tiny changes in the soil angle, which indicates when the magma is inflating or disinflig.
“Our work is like being a lot of ants that crawl into an elephant that tries to discover how the elephant works,” said Hon.
Lava sources have been shorter lately. Steve Lundblad, a professor at Hawaii University in Thread Geology, said the breathlessness may have been wider, leaving the less pressurized molten rock.
“We are still going to have spectacular eruptions,” he said. “They will simply be broader and not so high.”
Carrying stories of Pelé
Some people can see lava flows as destructive. But Huihui Kanahele-Possman, executive director of the Edith Kanakaʻole Foundation, said Lava is a natural resource that hardens in the earth and forms the basis of everything on the island of Hawaii.
The non-profit organization of Kanahele-Possman bears the name of his grandmother, the estimated practitioner of the Hawaiian language and culture and the founder of a well-known Hulau or School. Hālau or Kekuhi is celebrated for his dominance of a Hula style rooted in the stories of Pelé and his sister, Hiʻiaka.
Kanahele-Possman has visited the crater several times since the eruption began. Initially observes amazement and reverence. But then observe more details to be able to go home and compare it with the lava in the tales of centuries that your school performs. While in the crater, it also offers a song prepared in advance and makes offerings. He recently introduced Awa, a drink made with Kava and a Lei fern.
“You as a dancer, you are the storyteller and have that story that was written in which I went forward,” he said, using the Hawaiian word for the song. “Being able to see that eruption described in the Mele, which is always exciting for us and drives us and motivates us to remain in this tradition.”
Visiting the volcano
Visits to the park have increased eight months of the year so far, in part due to the eruption. In April there were 49% more visitors than the same month of 2024.
Park spokeswoman Jessica Ferracane said that the last episodes have only lasted between 10 and 12 hours. Those who wish to go should register in the warning notifications of the US Geological.
She warned that visitors must remain in marked and viewpoint paths because unstable edges and cracks on Earth may not be evident immediately, and the fall could cause serious injuries or death. Young children must stay close.
Volcanic gas, glass and ashes can also be dangerous. Night visitors must bring a flashlight.
