Kīlauea | U.S. Geological Survey
Kīlauea is one of the world's most active volcanoes; since December 23, 2024, it has been intermittently erupting within the summit caldera in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. See real-time video of the …
Kīlauea - Wikipedia
Kīlauea (US: / ˌkɪləˈweɪə / ⓘ KIL-ə-WAY-ə, Hawaiian: [kiːlɐwˈwɛjə]) is an active shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands. It is located along the southeastern shore of Hawaii Island. The volcano is …
Kilauea - Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
First forming underwater roughly 280,000 years ago, Kīlauea is a fairly typical shield volcano with long, shallow slopes. Its surface makes up an area slightly smaller than the island of Oʻahu. Traditionally, …
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has been erupting for a whole year with 1 ...
13 hours ago · Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has been erupting for a whole year with lava shooting 1,400ft into the sky Kilauea is one of the world’s youngest yet most active volcanoes, and one of the six …
Kilauea | Location, Eruptions, Height, Map, & Facts | Britannica
Nov 26, 2025 · The central feature of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Kilauea (“Much Spreading” in Hawaiian), is an elongated dome built of lava eruptions from a central crater and from lines of craters …
The Current Kīlauea Summit Eruption Makes One Year
1 day ago · *This story was updated on Dec. 24, 2025. A year ago on Dec. 23, 2024, one of the world’s most active volcanoes awoke. That morning, lava fountains Since Dec. 23, 2024, Kīlauea has been …
Volcano Watch: One year of Kilauea’s episodic summit fountaining
3 days ago · The left map shows the tephra fall associated with Kilauea's episodic summit eruption, from December 2024 to December 2025. Tephra is a generic word for any material erupted by a volcano …
Kilauea Volcano, Hawai'i - Facts & Information | VolcanoDiscovery
Nov 7, 2025 · Kilauea volcano, a youthful shield volcano, sitting on the south east flank of the massive Mauna Loa shield volcano, is the youngest volcano (on land) of the Hawaiian hot spot and not only …
Kīlauea - Volcano Updates | U.S. Geological Survey
2 days ago · Kīlauea has been erupting episodically since December 23, 2024, primarily from two vents (north and south) in Halema‘uma‘u. Eruptive episodes, which can last up to 12 hours, are separated …
Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupts for 31st time since December | CNN
Aug 23, 2025 · Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea’s 31st display of molten rock...