The latest 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 flooring which is sort of 300 acres or 120 hectares. Wow, that’s a number of area of an lively lava lake! The brand new depth of lava added onto of the earlier crater flooring is estimated to be over 30 ft 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 lively. Additionally, as we watched the reside stream video, we seen how the crater flooring is slowly transferring in sloshing movement.
This new eruption at Halema’uma’u is situated at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and might be observed from a distance.
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